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 1QZycc-0000uh-6y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:08:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 417CFE0521; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:04:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D86E0521 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:04:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6D71B4011 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:04:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.893 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.893 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.706, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0yRyU9btqwsx for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6721B400F for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QZyZC-0005FC-8g for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:04:30 +0200 Received: from athedsl-373278.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.10.28]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:04:30 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-373278.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:04:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:04:43 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4E0167C4.9080100@gmail.com> <201106232243.11384.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4E03BB43.2050404@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-373278.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110524 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <4E03BB43.2050404@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6f620aaeb62b1f596e2f2fe203f6ccc6 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.