Mass Fortran rebuilds due to new GCC?

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Fri Feb 13 20:57:53 UTC 2015


On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 01:53:12PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:47:07 -0800
> Susi Lehtola <jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > as has happened many times before, the GCC bump in rawhide has broken 
> > all Fortran packages, desperately needing a mass rebuild.
> 
> Can you expand on the breakage? Is it that they no longer rebuild?
> Or that they no longer run? 

The ABI has not changed, libgfortran is backwards compatible, the only thing
that changed is (as with any GCC version bump) the *.mod file format.
Not all Fortran packages ship modules...

	Jakub


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