Re: toolchain/47503: Request automated addition of gfortran to base compiler set

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/47503; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/47503: Request automated addition of gfortran to base
 compiler set
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 03:57:24 +0000

 On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:40:01AM +0000, jwbacon%tds.net@localhost wrote:
  > I think it would make sense to provide the ability to add gfortran
  > to the base toolchain.
 
 I think everything else in this PR is out of date (pkgsrc fortran now
 works more or less properly and provides gfortran)... but yes, we'd
 like to have fortran in base, since the hope in the 90s that fortran
 would go away eventually didn't pan out.
 
 Unfortunately, it's not so simple to do...
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost