[Fedora-packaging] Fortran guideline issues

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:53 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Fortran states:
> 
> As Fortran modules are architecture and GCC version specific, they MUST 
> be placed into %{_fmoddir} (or its package-specific subfolder in case 
> the modules have generic names), which is owned by 'gcc-gfortran'. For 
> directory ownership any packages containing Fortran modules MUST 
> Requires: gcc-gfortran%{_isa}.
> 
> I did this in netcdf, and ended up with:

Thanks for the report. 

The %{_fmoddir} ownership issue
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513985
still isn't resolved due to inactivity (read: total silence) of the gcc
maintainers.

In the meantime I recommend just commenting out the Requires:
gcc-gfortran%{_isa} line.

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Since 64-bit gcc is built to be able to compile in 32-bit mode, it would
be logical to make the x86_64 gfortran own the 32-bit %{_fmoddir} and
Provides: gfortran(x86-32) (and the same thing on other arches, too).

This has to be discussed with the gcc maintainers, though.
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org