From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 12 03:52:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA05488 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 03:52:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from spinner.DIALix.COM (spinner.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA05482; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 03:52:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from spinner.DIALix.COM (localhost.DIALix.oz.au [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.DIALix.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA04056; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 19:51:28 +0800 (WST) Message-Id: <199703121151.TAA04056@spinner.DIALix.COM> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Pedro Giffuni cc: Satoshi Asami , committers@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: gcc-2.7.2.2? Re: ports freeze in 9 1/2 hours In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Mar 1997 20:42:20 PST." <3326342B.1CDC@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 19:51:27 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Satoshi Asami wrote: > > = > > This is your last chance! > > = > Well..there=B4s not much I can do right now, but here it goes: > Our g77 port is outdated and broken (requires gcc-2.6.3) The new g77 > version (g77-0.5.20) explicitly requires gcc-2.7.2.2 so I guess it coul= d > be considered unbroken. > The maintainer never responded but, who knows? someone can make a > suicidal attempt... > = > Pedro. gcc-2.7.2.2? ?!?? Who? What? How? Where? When? I presume we'd like the version in src/contrib tree updated? Back when I did the gcc-2.7.2.1 conversion, I very nearly did g77 along = with it, but was running out of energy.. When I discovered that we had f2= c = already and had hooks for gcc's driver so that it can "compile" f77 files= , = I figured that was a good excuse to bail out right then. Should we swap f2c out and bring in g77 in it's place? Cheers, -Peter