[oe] gfortran needed on host to compile gcc >= 4.1.2

Junqian Gordon Xu xjqian at gmail.com
Thu Nov 22 02:12:59 UTC 2007


On 11/21/2007 06:47 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Dnia środa, 21 listopada 2007, Junqian Gordon Xu napisał:
>> I took the liberty to enable gfortran for gcc_4.1.2 (hence gcc >= 4.1.2
>> has fortran enabled). The side effect is that you need to install
>> gfortran or g77 on your host to compile it.
> 
> Can I still build gcc(-cross) without gfortran when gfortran is not 
> installed on host? If not they I would call it ugly regression...

I'm afraid you will get stuck in do_configure of gcc(-cross). I assume 
the burden of installing gfortran on the host is low. But people may 
disagree. Maybe we could introduce a fortran flag in a conf files, if 
there is too much opposition to the change.

Regards
Gordon




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