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From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: buildroot@buildroot.org
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>,
	Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>,
	Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gcc: fortran support now requires MMU
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:10:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260813131053.899334-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> (raw)

Since upstream commit
c66d1ba685b0d03b28967d2f7a48f6c64687efa2 ("Fortran: Add a shared
memory multi process coarray implementation [PR88076]"), libgfortran
now unconditionally uses fork(), which makes it impossible to build
Fortran support on noMMU architectures.

In follow-up commit efb497c23a6f4109bf8794342617cbc161c08301, it was
made even more clear: if you don't have fork() and you're not on
WIN32:

+#else
+#error "no way known to start child processes."
+#endif

There are apparently no autobuilder failures for this issue, but the
simple defconfig below allows to trigger the build failure:

BR2_arm=y
BR2_cortex_m7=y
BR2_GCC_VERSION_16_X=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_FORTRAN=y

Even though this issue is only starting from GCC 16.x, we make Fortran
unavailable on noMMU configurations regardless of the GCC version,
with the reasoning that:

1. Fortran on noMMU is unlikely to be in use

2. Moving forward, all future versions of GCC will have this
   restriction

Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
---
 package/gcc/Config.in.host | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package/gcc/Config.in.host b/package/gcc/Config.in.host
index d8b89d942c..bc3223eb59 100644
--- a/package/gcc/Config.in.host
+++ b/package/gcc/Config.in.host
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_FORTRAN
 	# on architecture building libquadmath, wchar is required
 	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBQUADMATH || \
 		(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBQUADMATH && BR2_USE_WCHAR)
+	# requires fork() since gcc 16.x
+	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
 	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_FORTRAN
 	help
 	  Enable this option if you want your toolchain to support the
-- 
2.55.0

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