[MacPorts] #15571: request - uniform Portfile standard to handle the different possibilities of Fortran compilers

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#15571: request - uniform Portfile standard to handle the different possibilities
of Fortran compilers
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 Reporter:  davidh@…                 |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:  Port Enhancements                    
Component:  ports                    |     Version:  1.6.0                                
 Keywords:  fortran portgroup        |        Port:                                       
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Comment(by mcalhoun@…):

 Replying to [comment:6 blb@…]:
 > Automatically setting the variants as appropriate via a port group could
 consist of taking a few arguments in a setup proc (like perl5 and haskell
 groups), one being a list of which ports are supported for fortran (eg,
 g95, gcc42, gcc43), the second being what to add to configure.args, and
 the third what to delete from it.  Then the group would manipulate
 configure.args as appropriate and set configure.{f77|fc}, all in each
 variant as needed.

 It seems like most of the operations mentioned require as many lines of
 code with a PortGroup framework as without one.[[BR]]
 The exceptions being configure.{f77|fc|f90}, which, I will admit, is
 somewhat of an annoyance to set for g95, gcc42, and gcc43.[[BR]]
 Other than that, I am not quite sure I see what a PortGroup buys.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15571#comment:7>
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