Request 237 was acted upon.
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URL: https://rt.openpkg.org/id/237
Ticket: [OpenPKG #237]
Subject: [gcc] enabling additional languages
Requestors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queue: openpkg
Owner: Nobody
Status: open
Transaction: Correspondence added by rse
Time: Mon Aug 18 17:28:02 2003
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT wrote:
> The current gcc package provides a build-time option to selectively
> enable the C++ language, via the following construct:
>
> %if "%{with_cxx}" == "yes"
> l_enable_languages="${l_enable_languages},c++"
> %endif
>
> I would like to suggest adding a similar build-time option for Fortran
> support. I know that this language is not the most fashionable any more,
> but we at least have several users who would appreciate a Fortran
> compiler.
>
> I imagine this would not affect the stability of the gcc package, since
> the option could/would be disabled by default.
>
> Comments?
Yes, this certainly can be done as an %option. The same should be done
perhaps for the GCC Java frontend. The problem is just that additional
frontends usually also need additional run-time libraries. The question
is whether these also have to be included or whether we make separate
packages out of them...
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
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