hdf5 does not build without fortran, even if -fortran is specified. this is an error in the ebuild. patch attached. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 277745 [details, diff] patch for hdf5-1.8.7 ebuild
Thanks I will fix that later today.
+ 22 Jun 2011; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> hdf5-1.8.4-r1.ebuild, + hdf5-1.8.6.ebuild, hdf5-1.8.7.ebuild: + Conditionally check for fortran support, #372557 +