Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/24/2011 01:16 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 22 June 2011 17:23:44 Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I removed the fortran flag it didn't change anything because (I
>>>> suppose) the KDE profile has included it as a default.
>>> So it seems. I've just tried "USE=-fortran emerge -upDvN world" and
>>> the only
>>> thing that would be remerged because of fortran is gcc. So I'm going
>>> to put
>>> -fortran into make.conf and see what breaks.
>>>
>>
>> It will break several things. This is what I just went through. It
>> appears that if you emerge kde-meta, you have to have a fortran type
>> compiler. So, you may as well keep what you got if it is working. When I
>> started going down this road, I thought I could just disable fortran and
>> have less packages installed. That is not the case. I removed fortran
>> then had to replace that with even more packages than I had to begin 
>> with.
>>
>> If it works with fortran turned on, I'd leave it alone. With hindsight,
>> I should have left well enough alone anyway. It wasn't hurting a thing.
>> Watch the elog messages. It will tell you at some point to either enable
>> fortran or emerge some other package that I forget the name of. That one
>> package pulled several dependencies on my rig. YMMV.
>
> Well, as I said in another post, I do have -fortan in my make.conf and 
> there are no problems.  I do not have programs installed that need a 
> fortran compiler.  And I do not have kde-meta installed; that's a 
> waste of resources.  I only install what I actually need.
>

I seem to recall you having -fortran all the time tho.  It's the change 
that breaks things.  I mentioned it in case he is using kde-meta since 
it should pull in the same packages as on mine.  If that is so, he will 
end up with broken stuff and will need to fix them.

This is one of those situations where it depends on what you have 
installed and if you are changing something.  This doesn't apply to 
everyone just those have not had -fortran set before and installed kde-meta.

This may not apply to you but it may apply to others.

Dale

:-)  :-)