On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 8:27 AM Jonathan Wakely via Fortran < fortran@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> > It doesn't include them, but they are standard system packages that > everybody can install without downloading the sources and building > them from scratch. unless the person is on a system on which they are not preinstalled and a system for which the person doesn’t have the sudo privileges that package managers often require. What I’m describing is the norm for a lot of government employees and even many people at private corporations with strict security policies. For what it’s worth, I’ve been assisting someone who contacted me with this very issue over the past few days. Building the entire stack from source is the least painful option for this person. You still need to have the other prerequisites listed at > https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html That is a long and daunting list for a newcomer. I’ve listened to gfortran developers describe building gfortran as “easy” for more than a decade now. Simply saying it’s easy doesn’t make it so. I don’t know that I’ve ever met someone who described the process as easy unless that person was a gfortran developer. Damian <https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html> >
