Re: Moving to gcc7

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Alexander Hansen
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 9, 2017, at 08:32, Remko Scharroo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Fink Developers,
>>
>> I see that some packages are being changed from linking against gcc6 to gcc7. For example: floppy, flow, ftidy, snoopy, to-f90.
>> I have a few Fortran related packages that I maintain.
>> Is the general consensus that Fink now goes with gcc7 as source for gfortran?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Remko
>>
>>
>
> There’s no policy in that regard.  When packages get updated, it’s pretty common to update them to use the latest versions of their dependencies at that time.
>

There is at least one exception to that rule.The r-baseXY packages
embed a specific versioned gfortran release (such as gfortran-fsf-5)
into its internal build commands for compiling cran modules. In that
case, it would be best practices to switch the r-baseXY packages and
all of the cran modules with gcc5-shlibs dependencies over to the same
gcc release in one go.
            Jack

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