On Jan 17, 2013, at 12:49, Sean Farley <s...@macports.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Jack Howarth <howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> Is this really necessary considering that binary builds should already
>> be available for the current gcc47 package?
> 
> Well, for one, the binary packages (for whatever reason) are sometimes
> unavailable. And second, this fills the needs of people that want to
> use the clang compiler but lack fortran.

This is usually because they or one of their dependencies is missing a 
'license' line (or failed to build).

It would be nice if 'port lint' would report about missing license lines in 
dependencies as well.  Maybe 'port lint -R' could be made to do this.

--Jeremy

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