Ticket #3002 (closed defect: wontfix)
A lot of spkgs check for fortran even if they don't need it
| Reported by: | dfdeshom | Owned by: | mabshoff |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | sage-3.0.1 |
| Component: | packages: standard | Keywords: | |
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Description
A lot of configure scripts seem to check for fortran, even if they don't use it. It appears the relevant environment variables are F77 and FFLAGS. Anyway, the variable SAGE_FORTRAN seems to be honored fine for the packages that actually need fortran.
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This is not the case and if we don't use an F77 compiler we shouldn't use the F77 env variable. The fact that a lot of them check for a Fortran compiler and don't use them is also something that doesn't matter since the configure process will not fail. So, the whole ticket is clearly "won't fix" to me.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Michael