Fortran Policy for Debian

Track: Academic

Type: Academic paper

Room: Petit amphi

Time: Jul 15 (Tue): 16:30

Duration: 0:20

Fortran is undergoing a renaissance, driven by new compilers. For many years, gfortran has been the only commpiler in Debian; this is now joined by flang,lfortran and other LLVM-based derivatives.

I am proposing a Debian policy and tools to support multiple Fortran compilers, to enable a package or the full HPC stack to be automatically built with a new compiler. This is needed as libraries and Fortran module files from different compilers may be non-compatible; hence we need to add support to enable multiple Fortran compiler versions.

This is based mainly for HPC / Science package maintainers but also language /compiler developers.

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