Tobias Ulmer <tobi...@tmux.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 01:16:48PM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
>> Qingshan Chen <q...@discreteinfo.net> writes:
>> 
>> > Sorry for the double posting here. The message was originally posted on
>> > m...@openbsd.org, and is being re-posted here, in the hope of reaching
>> > the right people.
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > It seems that gcc-libs-4.9.3p3 collides with libgfortran-4.3.1p16, which
>> > is required by gfortran-4.2.1p15. I have run into this issue a couple of
>> > times, when I tried to install various packages. The following message
>> > appeared when I tried to install gnucash, which requires
>> > webkit-2.4.9p4v1, which in turn requires gcc-libs-4.9.3p3:
>> >
>> > Collision in gcc-libs-4.9.3p3: the following files already exist
>> >         /usr/local/lib/libgfortran.la (libgfortran-4.2.1p16 and
>> > gcc-libs-4.9.3p3)
>> > Can't install webkit-2.4.9p4v1: can't resolve gcc-libs-4.9.3p3
>> >
>> > I installed OpenBSD recently, on this Toshiba Satellite L505 laptop, and
>> > I have applied all the published security patches. Beyond that, I have
>> > no idea how to resolve this collision issue. I do need to keep this
>> > gfortran package on my system for my scientific research. Any
>> > suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Qingshan
>> 
>> gcc-libs is almost a requirement these days.  I hope that we can just
>> remove the .la from the gfortran package.  This should go in a bulk
>> build to ensure that nothing breaks.
>> 
>
> That solves the collision, but now you have libgfortran 2.0 and 6.0
> installed. gfortran will presumably pick up the newer library belonging
> to g95. That cant be a good thing.
>
> Qingshan: Anything stopping you from using the g95 package instead of
> gfortran?

Just like Qingshan I thought that lang/gfortran was the real deal.
I should have looked closer.  Let's forget about the conflict.  sthen
and you proposed to delete lang/gfortran: I think that's a good idea.

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