HEADS UP: Removal of libobjc from the base system

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:37:10 -0700 (PDT)
"Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip at tutopia.com> wrote:

> 
> --- On Mon, 4/18/11, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
> ...
> > > Yeah it's too outdated to be of any use.
> > > 
> > > IMHO, you can axe libf2c too...
> > > 
> > 
> > Honest question here, is there a newer version of libf2c
> > that lives in ports and is adopted by people who use
> > fortran?  The one that I find in the base system seems
> > to be a similar match to the one in ports/devel/f2c. 
> > Is the one in the base system a pain to maintain or
> > otherwise holding back other work, or has it been made
> > obsolete by something in ports?  Is removing it from
> > the base system anything more than just churn?
> > 
> 
> I am a moderate user of Fortran: when I need it I use
> gfortran instead of f2c. lang/f2c is in the ports tree,
> and the one port I made (tochnog) that actually depends
> on libf2c uses the port, not the system library.
> 
> Considering we are not carrying fortran in base anymore,
> it would seem logical to kill libf2c, but it must be said
> the f2c port originates in netlib, I have no idea where
> the GPL'd libf2c comes from or if there is any significant
> difference.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Pedro.
>  

We do not have f2c in tree and it was disconnected from the build even
longer than that.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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