Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:19:12 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ... Message-ID: <477FAE00.5070001@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <477FAD02.8040505@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <477D5FE2.4080008@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <477D6310.2060406@FreeBSD.org> <477FAD02.8040505@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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O. Hartmann wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >> O. Hartmann wrote: >>> Sorry about the noise, but I miss g77 or f77 on my FreeBSD 7.0-PRE >>> box. Where is it? Hasn't gcc 4.2 as incorporated in FreeBSD as the >>> native compiler also a native fortran 90 compiler? >> >> No, you need to install the gfortran port. This is presumably >> documented in the release notes. >> >> Kris > Thank you for the answer. > > Wouldn't it be more convenient for all having both the C/C++ and Fortran > compiler aboard the operating system since the compiler suite is a whole > piece? > > Well, no offense, but this remembers me on the time when SUN split the > C-Compiler apart the OS or it looks like the behaviour of many Linux > distribution even splitting header files apart from the OS. Hope FreeBSD > will not tend to take apart header files and even the C compiler ... No, it's not convenient. There is a large maintenance cost for keeping the fortran compiler in the base system for little gain (nothing in FreeBSD uses it), and it is also only of use to a small subset of FreeBSD users, so this is a perfect situation where moving it to the ports collection made sense. Kris
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