Thread: Fortran for Sailfish OS ?
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2014-10-07 , 08:49
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Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
If this is done, Mer would be the only distro I know that does this. Is the build overhead added by Fortran _that_ significant?

If I end up doing it this way, I will eventually submit the source package to OBS, so the net result is that that there's duplication of work (because now gcc-{c,c++} is built twice). Right?
Yes, it's that significant

Mer uses OBS and dependency based rebuilds. When bootstrapping or when updating very low level packages gcc is rebuilt many times as dependency loops are resolved (think rpm uses libstdc but libstdc needs rpm to build ... same for bash, utils, bison ...). FWIW this is very similar to gcc's internal multi-phase compile cycle.

Adding a single additional fortran build on the top is negliglble compared to that.
 

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