Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:46:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of Fortran from the base system Message-ID: <20060530133411.A12000@orthanc.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060530020628.GC33161@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20060527024407.GA2525@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <447809E6.60002@samsco.org> <20060527162407.GD7307@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060530020628.GC33161@dragon.NUXI.org>
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> 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. I don't know about that, but it's certainly a lot of bloat. This is why I alluded before to an f2c based replacement. The reasons against inclusion of GCC 4.1.1 Fortran involves changing (and increased) library dependencies. An f2c based f77 replacement would eliminate that problem while preserving functionality that has been part of BSD for over two decades. Given the rate of change of f2c and it's associated libraries (i.e. practically nil), the maintenance overhead after the initial import to the base should be very small (even when the underlying C compiler changes). The majority of the import work would be writing a replacement f77 driver command. --lyndon
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