Brian Barnes wrote: > Hello, > > First off, let me say how much I enjoy the packages available through > fink and what a great resource it is for people transitioning from > Linux to OS X. I find many great tools in fink. Thank you! > > I am installing grace via fink right now, and I noticed that it is > compiling g95 to satisfy a dependency. I thought this was unusual, > as I already have gfortran (4.2) installed on this system, also via > fink. Having both those compilers installed seems to be wasteful of > time and disk space. Perhaps g95 was a requirement for compiling > some other grace dependency when gfortran was not mature enough to be > trusted? I am accustomed to using Fedora or Ubuntu with grace and > the latest gfortran, which works fine for all standard F77/F95 these > days. > package link: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/grace > > Anyway, is there a chance this dependency could be changed, or > avoided if gfortran is already on a system? I am just a user, not a > fink package maintainer or anything, but thought I would ask. > > Sincerely, > > Brian > > At one time, I believe gfortran and g95 built things slightly differently, so they weren't drop-in replacements for one another--e.g. there was a shared library from gfortran that got linked into packages. This may not be the case now.
We _don't_ support builds that differ depending on what's installed on a system, but it's possible that the dependency could be changed. If you like, you can change it locally on your system and try it out. Drop me a line off-list if you're interested, and if it works you can give that piece of data to the maintainer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
