On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 06:28:58PM +0100, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 06:48:17PM +0200, Rafael Sadowski wrote: > > Before I go deeper into the rabbit hole I would like to ask for > > feedback. Below you can see my idea. I would like to update lapack, > > blas and cblas. Upstream project has decided to use cmake and build > > everything in one. I like it because it makes the current situation > > simple. > > Would it make sense to use a reasonably modern egfortran, i.e. gfortran 11, > still supported by upstream: > https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/ > over the default gfortran 8.4, which is long past its expiry date: > https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/
One issue is that gcc-8 and gcc-11 can't be installed at the same time. That cannot work for bulk builds, so you'd need to switch the whole ports tree to gcc-11. And someone has to volunteer to handle that transition. Being able to install multiple versions seemingly brings less friction. But it also brings another set of problems (C++ ABI changes for examples) and I doubt that it would help much in the long run. -- jca
