[Buildroot] [PATCHv2 04/14] gcc: fix Fortran support

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 16 16:21:10 UTC 2013


2013/9/16 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

> Dear Samuel Martin,
>
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:53:53 +0200, Samuel Martin wrote:
>
> > > I have no idea. I believe Objective-C is completely useless. However, I
> > > believe Fortran *might* be useful for some scientific applications that
> > > could be used on embedded devices. But the fact that no-one ever
> > > complained about our Fortran support being broken (the runtime library
> > > was never copied to the target) is a fairly strong indication that
> > > nobody is using this.
> > >
> > I confirm.
> > I have not checked recently, but few versions ago, fortan was needed to
> > build opencv.
>
> Doh? Where is this information coming from? There might be a Fortran
> API to OpenCV, but I really doubt that Fortran is a requirement to
> build OpenCV, because we don't enable Fortran in any of our
> configurations, and still OpenCV builds fine.
>

Well, after checking, fortran seems not need anymore to build opencv, for
at least 2 years...


-- 
Samuel
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