Re: UPDATE: GCC 8.4.0

On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:40:10PM +0200, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:20:16PM +0200, Theo Buehler wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 12:59:23PM +0200, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 11:20:09AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > > On 2020/08/18 13:10, Brad Smith wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 03:58:12AM -0400, Brad Smith wrote:
> > > > > > Here is a start at an update to GCC 8.4.0.
> > >
> > > What will be the status of gfortran? Currently, on OpenBSD 6.7,
> > > in order to get a functioning gfortran I have to install lapack from ports
> > > and use /usr/ports/pobj/lapack-3.8.0/bin/gfortran
> >
> > This is a small shell wrapper around /usr/local/bin/egfortran from the
> > g95 package (g95-8.3.0p5 on OpenBSD 6.7-stable):
> >
> > $ cat /usr/ports/pobj/lapack-3.8.0/bin/gfortran
> > #!/bin/sh
> > exec /usr/local/bin/egfortran -B /usr/ports/pobj/lapack-3.8.0/bin "$@"
> >
> >
> > $ pkg_info -c g95
> > Information for https://ftp.hostserver.de/pub/OpenBSD//snapshots/packages/amd64/g95-8.3.0p7.tgz
> >
> > Comment:
> > GNU compiler collection: f95 compiler
> >
> >
> > To find packages, I recommend using the pkglocatedb package.
> >
> > $ doas pkg_add pkglocatedb
> > $ pkglocate gfortran
>
> still, it leaves in the open the question of installing (e)gfortran.
>
> I got egfortran built from source (as a part of gcc-8.3.0) in the process of installation of
> math/lapack
>
> Do you say that a binary package for (e)gfortan does not exist?

Apologies for adding to the the confusion...

When I wrote "/usr/local/bin/egfortran from the g95 package", I meant to
say that you can get egfortran by installing the "g95" package.

This g95 package is built as part of gcc-8.3.0, so the gfotran packaged
in g95 is the same as the one you built from source.

> Why is the package gfortran obsolete?

If memory serves, a gfortran package did exist independently of the gcc
port but was not really used. There were conflicts between it and the
gcc-libs (so basically with almost everything), so it was decided to
remove it about 4 or 5 years ago. That's the reason for the confusing
message you got.

Brad's diff will update gcc to 8.4.0 and the g95-8.4.0 package will
bundle the corresponding egfortran.