[Pkg-octave-devel] fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi,

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> (24/07/2007):
> Thanks for your comments, I really appreciate them.  Once you are
> done, please post the summary here and also to debian-toolchain and
> debian-release.

Before posting there (where I'm still waiting for an answer about
gfortran-4.1 status), here is a quick summary of what I've found WRT to
our B-D:
 - we B-D on atlas3, which pulls g77; I then tried to get rid of g77 in
   this package;
 - atlas3 in turn B-D on lapack3; I then tried...
 - lapack3 in turn B-D on refblas3; I then tried... and failed because
   of:
| gfortran -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ff90 -fPIC -c src/c_abs.f -o
| debian/shared/c_abs.o
| f951: error: unrecognized command line option "-ff90"
| make: *** [debian/shared/c_abs.o] Error 1

So we really have to wait for the others to transition before we do.
Since the above-mentioned packages have been NMU'd a lot of times, I
guess that people from -toolchain might do the uploads for the
transition, and fix the FTBFS(es) I mentioned; I'm not used enough to
fortran problems to solve wrong options...

I believe we could transition from g77 to gfortran-4.1 once we have a go
(and I also believe we'll have, it looks like g77 is gcc3.4-related, so
gfortran-4.1 should be fine), and once the packages we are
build-depending upon have transitioned, either ask for binNMUs for our
packages, or use MUs (with various other fixes), to ensure our packages
still build fine.

Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois
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