Thank you for this information.
As far as I know I am one of only a few persons who are testing
development versions of R on FreeBSD CURRENT. So most times I can not
use the port math/R and instead I have to build R manually. This was
very easy with FreeBSD as long as the fortran compiler was integrated in
the base system. For some time now we have to install the gfortran
compiler by lang/gcc4x. And here my problems with some third party
software outside the ports system begun.
Compiling software like R normally uses the system compiler version,
i.e. gcc 4.2.1. So gfortran version 4.2.x is needed.
When I want to use version 4.3.x instead I explicitly have to set some
vars in etc/make.conf:
# Only for ports
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/ports/*} && !${.CURDIR:M*/work/*}
# Set gcc version for ports.
CC= gcc43
CXX= g++43
CPP= cpp43
.endif
I tried it and it works. But there are some problems remaining with
version 4.3.x that are not resolved for me at this time.
First of all, building and installing the system (world and kernel)
furthermore needs the system compiler (version 4.2.1). In the ports
system there are some ports that do not build with gcc 4.3.x, for
example multimedia/miro or x11/nvidia-driver.
Because of problems like that I often have to juggle with env settings
for the compiler version depending on that part of software I just want
to build.
Is there any elegant possibility to use gcc version 4.3.x for third
party software outside the ports system, but for all other cases using
the system compiler (version 4.2.1) without juggling env vars in
etc/make.conf or any other place?
For me it seams the best and easiest solution would be to use gfortran
in version 4.2.x until the system compiler itself will be changed
towards version 4.3.x. (It is fiddly always to patch lang/gcc42 for
gfortran...)
Rainer
On 16.03.2009 06:51 (UTC+1), bf wrote:
After upgrading to latest lang/gcc42 I found that there is no gfortran
any more.
Comparing the Makefiles of the ports lang/gcc42 and lang/gcc43 shows
that it had been removed. Was this intentional?
I need version 4.2.xx of gfortran for programs like math/R etc. Is it
possible to integrate it again in the port?
There was some discussion of this at the time of the changes
to bsd.gcc.mk, when WITH_FORTRAN was switched to use gfortran43
by default. gerald@'s point of view, as I understand it, was
that it was better to only use the latest stable version of
gfortran in ports, because that means he would have to spend
less time maintaining all of the other versions, and for the
majority of users the latest stable version would be an
improvement upon the other versions. If you think that there
is a compelling need to reintroduce one or more of the earlier
versions, then maybe you can persuade him to do so, at least as
an OPTION. Otherwise, I guess you're stuck using a locally
modified ports tree, which isn't all that inconvenient for a few
ports if you go about it in the right way.
Regards,
b.
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