Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> writes:

> Hi Marius,
>
>> 'as' is part of Binutils, you don't need the entire toolchain.
>>
>> That said, there are various other workarounds in Guix due to GCC
>> (and apparently gfortran) lacking an absolute reference to 'as'.
>>
>> Can you try the following patch and see if it works for your case?
>
> Thanks for looking into this!
>
> With your patch, I can compile Fortran programs in an environment
> containing nothing but "gfortran", so I'd say it works!

On second though, the patch increases the size of 'gcc' from 238.0 MiB
to 291.5 MiB.  It may also make it difficult to use a different 'as'
executable.

So I'm not sure whether the added convenience is worth it.

Thoughts?