[RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system

[David O'Brien]

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 09:24:07AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> ports/lang/gfortran
> 
> >From the Makefile
> 
> MASTERDIR=      ${.CURDIR}/../gcc41/
> PKGNAMESUFFIX=  -withfortran
> WITH_FORTRAN=   yes
> 
> Thus, this gfortran will be the one that is bundled with GCC 4.1.1
> by the FSF foundation.  I know this version works (for some definition
> of work) on i386 and amd64 FreeBSD.  I don't have access to other
> archs for testing.

I'm saddened to see FORTRAN ripped out of the base system - and I'd
personally do the import work if it weren't for the the extra
dependencies GNU FORTRAN 9x requires.

But 'ports/lang/gfortran' is an abomination.  If we are to remove
FORTRAN from the base system - we need to start building it again with
the GCC port.  'ports/lang/gfortran' not only installs a FORTRAN compiler
(which is only about %5 of the GCC build time and size), but a C/C++/Java
compiler also.  The current split is quite annoying.
 
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