conf/96834: [PATCH] Update Fortran related variables in sys.mk

[Steven G. Kargl]

The following reply was made to PR conf/96834; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl at troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/96834: [PATCH] Update Fortran related variables in sys.mk
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 07:44:15 -0700 (PDT)

 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
 > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:19:39AM -0700, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
 > > 
 > > The sys.mk file currently defines "FFLAGS = -O" for the default
 > > Fortran compilation options while "CFLAGS = -O2 -pipe".
 > > 
 > I don't have an opinion about this, since I don't know what
 > -O2 does exactly when applied to f77(1).
 
 f77(1) is g77 that is bundled with our gcc.  The optimizations
 turned on by -O2 apply to both gcc and g77 (it's the same
 middle and back ends).
 
 > > 	
 > This is irrelevant.  POSIX requires that these variables be set
 
 Ugh.
 
 You can close the PR without applying the patch.
 
 -- 
 Steve
 http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/