Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:40:22 -0500 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Creating port for lahey fortran; need to think ahead to others. Message-ID: <200201212240.g0LMeMV08188@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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Lahey is sending me a copy of their linux fortran compiler to build a port. It probably arrives late this week or early next week. It is somewhere between possible and likely that a person would have/ want multiple fortran compilers on the system--all of which would want to be invoked as "f90". It is likely that a person would have one or more third party libraries such as IMSL, Nag, and a couple of others. All of the f90 ports I know of (and all f77 save g77, which can't handle multi-dimensional arrays) are commercial; the user must obtain license and/or executables separately. After reading the porter's handbook, my thinking is to create a f95-lahey port, and then a general fortran port. The fortran port would check distfiles/fortran for licenses and executables it knows about, fetch executables (when possible) to match licenses, and install the most recent version of each that it knows about. (I cannot conceive of a reasonable situation where the license would be there, but installation would not be desirable). Does this make sense? Also, what should the linux dependencies be? I know that there are (at least) two sets of linux ports at the moment. hawk -- What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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