[Buildroot] [PATCHv2 04/14] gcc: fix Fortran support

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 16 15:53:53 UTC 2013


Thomas, Peter,


2013/9/16 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

> Dear Peter Korsgaard,
>
> On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 23:07:04 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>
> > I wonder if we shouldn't deprecate fortran (and objc) support and get
> > rid of them. Is there really a use case for them? Any interesting sw
> > that needs them?
>
> I have no idea. I believe Objective-C is completely useless. However, I
> believe Fortran *might* be useful for some scientific applications that
> could be used on embedded devices. But the fact that no-one ever
> complained about our Fortran support being broken (the runtime library
> was never copied to the target) is a fairly strong indication that
> nobody is using this.
>
I confirm.
I have not checked recently, but few versions ago, fortan was needed to
build opencv.


Regards,


-- 
Samuel
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