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: Fri Aug 22 11:22:48 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...
> I have done a trial run with g77 back when GCC 3.2 was the current
> package. Because the GCC team has chosen to implement the Fortran
> frontend as a thin wrapper around C library calls, there are not too
> many extra libraries needed.
>
> If memory serves, there was an extra static library (.a) produced, the
> g77 executable, and perhaps a few include files. All of these were
> self-contained inside the gcc package.
Ok, seems to work fine. I've now added support for optional Objective-C,
Java and Fortran-77 languages, starting with gcc-3.3.1-20030822.
Details you can see here: http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=11794
Thanks for your feedback.
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
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