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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] "R" dependency on fortran
  • Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:22:07 -0700

So we can have a g77 spell in devel grimoire that depends on gcc34 just
for spells that need that particular version, or do we just symlink g77
to fortran (or gfortran) and expect it all to work?

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:12:25PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> One more obstacle: g77 in test grimoire creates a "g77" binary because
> it's GCC 3, but "fortran" in devel grimoire creates "fortran" binary
> because it's GCC 4. They didn't make it easy for us...
>
> Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
>
> >I think making the 'deprecated' g77 depend on fortran is the surest way
> >to make sure people get the proper spells installed (except for those
> >subscribed to devel grimoire who have already ran into this issue).
> >
> >The provides is a good option if we are to have real g77/fortran spells
> >together in one grimoire at any one time, but I think Sergey's
> >suggestion will work best right now, doesn't require that we remove it
> >later by touching a whole bunch of spells (every spell that uses
> >fortran). In theory, adding the dependency is a pretty cool trick. The
> >provides technique would make more natural sense except for the fact
> >that it's too much work.

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