From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:02:58 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 04/14] gcc: fix Fortran support In-Reply-To: References: <1378138000-12739-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1378138000-12739-5-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <87eh8pkd53.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20130916173812.5c424599@skate> Message-ID: <20130916180258.37e82f48@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com