Re: [Fink-devel] why depend on g95?

2006-05-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Peter O'Gorman wrote: [] The g95 situation means that, due to the nature of the GPL, anything built with g95 becomes GPL licensed. Do you have an official word from the g95 authors on this or is this just speculation? Normally, the output of a GPL compiler does not automatically have to be

Re: [Fink-devel] why depend on g95?

2006-05-08 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 08:31 +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: What the long term prospects of g95 and gfortran are, nobody knows. But right now, g95 just works better than gfortran. There are issues with g95 that may affect the binary distribution. The runtime libraries are licensed under the GPL

Re: [Fink-devel] why depend on g95?

2006-05-08 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 12:47 +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: Peter O'Gorman wrote: [] The g95 situation means that, due to the nature of the GPL, anything built with g95 becomes GPL licensed. Do you have an official word from the g95 authors on this or is this just speculation? Normally,

Re: [Fink-devel] why depend on g95?

2006-05-08 Thread Jack Howarth
Martin, Have you tried the current gcc 4.1 branch from snapshot or svn? I would avoid gcc 4.2 for now since it is so far from release. However there are a huge number of fixes in the 4.1 branch for gfortran since the 4.1.0 release. They might have backported the MacIntel changes into that

Re: [Fink-devel] why depend on g95?

2006-05-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Jack Howarth wrote: I am wondering why packages like fftw3 are depending on g95 rather than gfortran? While this may be useful in the short term I think we would be far better off with gfortran in the long run. As far as I know the g95 source still is devoid of a decent test suite so there

[Fink-devel] why depend on g95?

2006-05-05 Thread Jack Howarth
I am wondering why packages like fftw3 are depending on g95 rather than gfortran? While this may be useful in the short term I think we would be far better off with gfortran in the long run. As far as I know the g95 source still is devoid of a decent test suite so there is no good way to