Bug 292408

Summary:	Proposal for more detailed description if fortran.eclass cannot find fortran compiler
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	pille <pille+bugs.gentoo.org>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo Science Related Packages <sci>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	jlec
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description pille 2009-11-08 17:11:40 UTC

when emerging sci-libs/blas-reference-20070226 without a fortran compiler installed, you'll get the notice to install this build time dependency:
  * None of the needed Fortran Compilers (g77 gfortran ifc) is installed.
  * To install one of these, choose one of the following steps:
  * [1] USE="fortran" emerge =sys-devel/gcc-3*
  * [2] USE="fortran" emerge =sys-devel/gcc-4*
  * [3] emerge dev-lang/ifc

my first point is the question, why this isn't represented by the fortran use flag.
my second point concerns the bad practise described in [1] and [2].

Comment 1 emerald 2009-11-08 17:17:04 UTC

The blas libraries are fortran libraries by nature, the c ones are the cblas libraries. So what's the point in a fortran useflag for a fortran-only package?

Comment 2 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-01 12:33:50 UTC

Eclass is obsolete.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 361591 ***