On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Anthony Green wrote: > I was building a C compiler from a source tree that does not include > the sources for the fortran front-end. It seems that this is no longer > supported, and the fortran sources must be available even if you're only > building C/C++. > > I'll stop stripping out gcc/fortran, but I'm wondering if anybody else > considers this a misfeature.
It looks like a mistfeature to me (even if not as bad as it would have been in the past when we provided more finely grained tarballs for snapshots and releases). Gerald