The following reply was made to PR pkg/37536; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
To: Richard Earnshaw <richard.earnshaw@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/37536: kdevelop-base requires f2c
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:40:17 +1300

 On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
 
 > I cribbed the attached patch from one of the other packages that
 > sets USE_LANGUAGES=fortran.  It seems to fix the dependency
 > failure, but I can't be sure if it's really the right way to solve
 > this.
 
 You shouldn't need to explicitly include compiler.mk just to set 
 USE_LANGUAGES.  There are plenty of packages in the math category 
 that don't but do set USE_LANGUAGES=fortran and don't have the 
 problem so I'm still confused.
 
 cheers
 mark