gdb and gfortran in 7.0?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:49:25PM +0200, Daniel Tourde wrote:
> Hello Kris,
> 
> 
> > > I am trying 7.0-current and I am planning to use CVS. At the moment I
> > > have the snapshot of Aug 07 installed on my machine.
> > >
> > > I saw that by default, during bootstrap, gfortran and gdb aren't built.
> > > Do I simply need to comment the two NO_ flags in Makefile.incl to get
> > > gfortran and gdb or do I need to do anything else?
> >
> > gdb is included in 7.0 and should be built by default.  gfortran is
> > not included in 7.0 and you need to install the port if you want it.
> 
> Thanks for your answer.
> Why isn't gfortran (coming from gcc 4.2.1) included in 7.0 when f77 (coming 
> from gcc-3.4.6) is included in 6.2?

Nothing in the base system requires it, and fortran is a niche
language (though popular in that niche).  This is the very definition
of what the ports collection is for.

Kris