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Re: [Fedora-packaging] fortran .mod files
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:23:39PM +0100, Fran?ois-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> [I'm CCing the list again, since it is a point we might want to discuss there.]
> >> I don't feel it's off-topic. We should certainly welcome distribution
> >> maintainers who ask for help when packaging gfortran or
> >> gfortran-compiled code. This is way better than doing things in
> >> anarchy or based on misunderstanding/misinformation. Moreover, I don't
> >> know what a better list would be to ask this kind of questions.
> >
> > It's off-topic. fortran@ is for gfortran development.
> > How many subscribers to fortran@ run fedora? How many
> > run linux? Would C:\Program Files\Modules\<arch>\ be
> > a better choice?
>
> That mail is asking for advice on a gfortran-related issue. (And, I
> think, an important one.) The Fortran list is not only for gfortran
> development, it's also current practice to help people who ask for
> help. If you feel so strongly about it, please by all means ask for
> the creation of fortran-patches list or a gfortran-help list. I don't
There is a gcc-help list already. gcc == Gnu Compiler Collection.
> feel it's warranted by the traffic to the current list, which is both
> small and mostly consist of development-related mails, but I would
> certainly not oppose it if you think it would help some of us who want
> to focus on pure development to do so.
Sorry, this has absoute nothing to do with gfortran. It is a
Fedora policy issue. Fedora has to not only deal with gfortran,
but also commercial vendors, e.g.,
/usr/local/modules/intel/
/usr/local/modules/gfortran/<arch>
/usr/local/modules/pathscale/
What Fedora or any other OS does with 3rd party add-on software packages
is up to that OS. The end user will need to add -I options to their
command line unless Fedora adds a wrapper around gfortran or gfortran
adds <localdir>/ paths to its default search path. This simply isn't
a gfortran issue. In fact, the Fedora developers should have broached
the topic with other linux vendors, and then perhaps, post the *general*
solution to the problem. Or, do you propose that gfortran needs to
entertain each OS's filesystem hierarchy (ie., /usr/local or /opt or
/usr/opt or ...)?
--
Steve