Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gfortran-4.2.1 build 5666.3 for Xcode 4.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.7

[Michael Dickens]

On May 31, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote:
> a. gcc-llvm-4.2 supplied with Xcode-4.0.2 package (paid version) appears to 
> build all the libraries, just like the standard gcc-4.0.1 from the older 
> Xcode-3.2.x series.

TTBOMK, and, really, this is kinda off list-topic by now:

Before XCode 4, Apple has -never- provided fortran as part of their standard 
XCode GCC install.  Apple's GCC 4.0.1 and 4.2.1, as found in XCode for OSX 10.5 
and 10.6, do not.  I don't have XCode 4 yet, so I cannot comment on what is 
included with it.

GCC is under the GPL, so Apple is required to release their source changes in 
some way.  Thus, since GCC is capable of building fortran, Apple's GCC variant 
should be as well with the correct tweaks.  I'm not a GCC hacker, but I'm sure 
there are folks out there who could figure out what to do.

Apple is moving away from stock GCC, towards LLVM / Clang etc..  LLVM provides 
interfaces for the major languages including fortran, though of course Apple 
can provide whatever interfaces it choose to.

I'm sure there are others, but this'll have to do for now :) - MLD