On Sun, 2021-10-31 at 10:38 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 10:29 AM Richard Purdie
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

The libgfortran configure sets FC to be $GFORTRAN. We did used to patch
that out but rather than carry a patch to gcc, just set GFORTRAN as
needed.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <redacted>
---
 meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/libgfortran.inc | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/libgfortran.inc b/meta/recipes-

devtools/gcc/libgfortran.inc
index 344ec5e21ef..e810146d4d1 100644

--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/libgfortran.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/libgfortran.inc

@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ EXTRA_OECONF_PATHS = "\

     --with-build-sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET} \
 "

+# An arm hard float target like raspberrypi4 won't build
+# as CFLAGS don't make it to the fortran compiler otherwise
+# (the configure script sets FC to $GFORTRAN unconditionally)
+export GFORTRAN = "${FC}"
+

Is this something we will need for general Fortran programs too now ?

No, it is specific to the ligfortran configure script.

Cheers,

Richard