Sunday, December 31, 2017

Re: NEW: lang/flang

On Sat Dec 30, 2017 at 10:12:23PM -0500, Brian Callahan wrote:
>
> On 12/23/17 00:00, Brian Callahan wrote:
> >
> > On 12/15/17 23:43, Brian Callahan wrote:
> > >
> > > On 12/10/17 12:27, Brian Callahan wrote:
> > > > Hi ports --
> > > >
> > > > Attached is a new port, lang/flang. Flang is a Fortran compiler
> > > > targeting LLVM.
> > > >
> > > > Supposedly Flang is on its way to becoming part of LLVM, though
> > > > there's no timetable for that.
> > > >
> > > > Flang is divided into two ports, the driver and the runtime. The
> > > > driver is a modified version of clang. I chose to only install
> > > > the flang driver binary from the driver port. The CMake build
> > > > system wants to install the entirety of the clang utils and
> > > > libraries and headers, but that means having three copies of
> > > > some things (1 in base, 1 from devel/llvm, 1 from flang), and
> > > > that seemed crazy. We only need the flang driver binary anyway.
> > > >
> > > > In order to link binaries with flang, you must remember to
> > > > include -L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lflang when linking the binary.
> > > >
> > > > I chose to use flang's built-in ompstubs library for OpenMP
> > > > "support." And by "support" I mean that the ompstubs library is
> > > > just stubbed out omp routines that do nothing but allow flang to
> > > > build. According to upstream, !amd64 archs use the ompstubs
> > > > library anyway. It would be nice to eventually move to real
> > > > OpenMP support, but that can be for a later day.
> > > >
> > > > Only tested on amd64 because I do not (yet) have an arm64
> > > > machine. Flang only supports those two platforms. I will add the
> > > > needed arm64 bits once I have my arm64 machine. Flang
> > > > successfully builds a bunch of F90/F95 programs I have and
> > > > passes a significant chunk of the NIST F77 test suite.
> > > >
> > > > OK?
> > > >
> > > > ~Brian
> > > >
> > >
> > > Ping. Tarball with latest version attached.
> > >
> > > OK?
> > >
> > > ~Brian
> > >
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
> > Latest tarball attached.
> >
> > ~Brian
> >
>
> Weekly bump with the latest tarball attached :)
>
> ~Brian
>

Not much to grumble about.

* Tab(s) after PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM
* Some comments in the patches would be very helpful.

Only build test on amd64. Is there any run test I could do?

Rafael

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