Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:12:12 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> Cc: giffunip@tutopia.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Removal of libobjc from the base system Message-ID: <8529F46F-CB05-4F34-B894-5F60097A1760@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20110418114726.26ceeef2@kan.dnsalias.net> References: <A784A886-1F22-4694-A2D8-22D9BB4F153A@samsco.org> <463183.28445.qm@web113513.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20110418114726.26ceeef2@kan.dnsalias.net>
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On Apr 18, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:37:10 -0700 (PDT) > "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> wrote: > >> >> --- On Mon, 4/18/11, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: >> ... >>>> Yeah it's too outdated to be of any use. >>>> >>>> IMHO, you can axe libf2c too... >>>> >>> >>> Honest question here, is there a newer version of libf2c >>> that lives in ports and is adopted by people who use >>> fortran? The one that I find in the base system seems >>> to be a similar match to the one in ports/devel/f2c. >>> Is the one in the base system a pain to maintain or >>> otherwise holding back other work, or has it been made >>> obsolete by something in ports? Is removing it from >>> the base system anything more than just churn? >>> >> >> I am a moderate user of Fortran: when I need it I use >> gfortran instead of f2c. lang/f2c is in the ports tree, >> and the one port I made (tochnog) that actually depends >> on libf2c uses the port, not the system library. >> >> Considering we are not carrying fortran in base anymore, >> it would seem logical to kill libf2c, but it must be said >> the f2c port originates in netlib, I have no idea where >> the GPL'd libf2c comes from or if there is any significant >> difference. >> >> cheers, >> >> Pedro. >> > > We do not have f2c in tree and it was disconnected from the build even > longer than that. > Guess I was looking on an old system, sorry for the noise. Scott
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