From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qafe7-00072e-Ga for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:04:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0534E1C0D6 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:04:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from basement.kutulu.org (187.250.102.97.cfl.res.rr.com [97.102.250.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778C51C07B for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C66112007 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:24:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kutulu.org Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NWgzCnc6QHMk for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:24:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.69.4] (wombat.kutulu.org [192.168.69.4]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6481C112006 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:24:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E06984D.5080800@kutulu.org> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:24:13 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? References: <4E0167C4.9080100@gmail.com> <6517863.YlIiSIDa8W@pc> <4E04ECE0.9010109@gmail.com> <1466587.PvB50u6JAg@pc> <4E04F91C.8070902@gmail.com> <20110624232018.03c2a706@digimed.co.uk> <4E055608.4060800@gmail.com> <20110625124829.3b9e05a8@digimed.co.uk> <4E05CEDC.6060006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E05CEDC.6060006@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a0087edb7832c0b2a519873ceb7106da On 6/25/2011 8:04 AM, Dale wrote: >> We restructured the dependency chain for fortran support, >> which includes >> a compile test now. The failure can be seen above. >> >> The Problem was in short, USE=fortran was enabled by >> default for linux >> arches, but people tend to disable it. Depending on >> gcc[fortran] doesn't >> work completely as gcc:4.4[fortran] and gcc:4.5[-fortran] >> with gcc-4.5 >> select can be installed, which would full fill the >> dependency but >> nevertheless doesn't give a working compiler. >> >> So now packages depend on virtual/fortran and use an >> eclass to check for >> a working compiler. So if you see this message, this means >> you somehow >> worked around gcc[fortran]. > That make sense? Yes. He's saying they didn't change the USE flag, they changed the fortran dependency test to actually do a run-time check for fortran because the USE flag alone wasn't sufficient. Which means you most likely had a non-working cantor and no fortran compiler before and just didn't notice :) --Mike