Gerald, (or who does this) Since shared memory parallel programming with Fortran is now a Standard feature of the language, we would like to support full parallelism through the use of mpich and OpenCorrays.
We choose mpich as a default only because it is very stable. We choose OpenCoarrays because it works well with gfortran and the developers have also supported significant portions of the gfortran frontend (not to mention that it is the only such library available). Choosing these as defaults for gfortran does not exclude any user from using any other libraries in the future since the final connection occurs at link time when a user compiles with -fcoarray=lib. In order to support testing of installation of the new packages we are requesting that the package tarballs be placed on the gcc.gnu.org along with the other gcc prerequisite packages here: ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/ There will be two stable released packages with appropriate shasum information to be added. I can provide the links to those packages for download or send them to you directly. Requesting approval for this first step. (Later steps (more than one) will provide patches for review of the contrib/download_prerequisites script. Another step will be modifying OpenCoarrays build structure to align with the Gnu/gcc build process. I believe mpich is already suitable, but will be testing.) Is this OK? Regards, Jerry
