svn commit: r336343 - in head: . Mk/Uses

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 09:55:33PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:54:33 +0100 (CET) Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> >> Log:
> >>   New USES=fortran to replace USE_FORTRAN.
> > 
> > I was already surprised when Bapt introduced USES=compiler and later
> > made changes to the default version of GCC there without ever giving 
> > me a heads up.  Now USE_FORTRAN, which I maintain, is being replaced 
> > without you reaching out to me.
> > 
> > And there is an aweful lot of redundancy and even some inconsistency now.
> > 
> > Not that I oppose in principle, or would have, but a little bit more 
> > communications and collaboration would be nice.
> > 
> > Gerald (sad)
> > 
> > 
> > PS: I'm starting vacation as we speak and will have limited connectivity
> > the coming weeks, and likely none from the 17th to the 27th.
> 
> It was discussed on current@ (libc++ vs. libstdc++ usage in the ports
> tree) and I CCed you when I had analysed the problem but apparently not
> when I submitted a patch.  Sorry about that.
> 
> The reason I chose to create USES=fortran is because several other
> languages already use the USES framework and because the solution to
> the Octave problem was to separate the selection of the Fortran
> compiler from the selection of the C/C++ compiler.
> 
> To address the redundancy I think there are a number of things we
> can do:
> - I expect converting Fortran ports will be relatively straightforward
>   so the Fortran bits in bsd.gcc.mk can eventually be removed.
> - Maybe the C/C++ bits in bsd.gcc.mk can be moved to compiler.mk?  I
>   like the way compiler.mk is built around features instead of versions.
> - Use the bsd.default-versions.mk framework to set GCC_DEFAULT.  This
>   allows users to set their preferred version of GCC in make.conf and
>   provides a central place where both fortran.mk and compiler.mk can
>   pick up the default GCC version instead of each having it hardcoded.

I would love to see all of the above happening

regards,
Bapt
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