On 19 May 2024 20:08:43 BST, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <j...@wxcvbn.org> wrote: >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. >
Are there ports which depend on g++ ? (which would be insane IMHO).
