On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 10:52:03AM +0000, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 12:07 AM Steve Kargl
> <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:19:01AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > >
> > > > If I were the lang/gcc maintainer this -rpath problem would be my number
> > > > one priority.  The current maintainer has never proposed any solutions
> > > > and when I submit patches he always resists.  I'm done wasting my time
> > > > fighting him.
> > >
> > > I'm late to this discussion (not being a Fortran/Python user) but is there
> > > any way to remove a recalcitrant maintainer?
> > >
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > Can you explain what you mean?  The maintainer of the lang/gcc
> > ports is a long-time member of the GCC steering committee
> > and a long-time maintainer of all gcc FreeBSD ports.  There
> > are very few FreeBSD users (like 3 of us) who have commit access
> > to the gcc tree.  Seems like a dubious idea to remove one of
> > those 3.
> 
> Given the amount of time unsuspecting and half-suspecting users wasted
> on making Fortran code (often in form of a Python extension) working
> on FreeBSD (e.g. I probably wasted weeks), time is high to do
> something, e.g. commit the said patches---there is an agreement that
> they are correct, right?
> 
> Dima
> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~coml0531/

Dima, gerald has always been very helpful in all my communications
with him. Have you filed a PR for the fix? dropped  him an email?

I know we (gerald and ?? can't remember) tried a static lib change
a few years ago. I believe it didn't work at the time due to missing
symbols which we have since added. 


> 
> >
> > --
> > Steve

Diane
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