Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:50:09 -0600 (CST) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall Message-ID: <199812151750.LAA28294@beowulf.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <199812151722.JAA67152@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <199812151507.JAA27744@beowulf.utmb.edu> <199812151722.JAA67152@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Steve Kargl writes: [deletia] > > g77 can be run in a manner that is fairly strict to the deprecated > Fortran 77 standard. There are, however, well documented extensions > in g77 that move g77 towards a standard conforming Fortran 90/95 compiler. > g77 includes libU77 which permits a Fortran program to access the > environment (e.g., getargs(), time(), date(), secnds(), subroutines). > Yeah, that's important, too, but since I primarily work with fairly standard Unix f77 programs, it is pretty transparent. [deleted] Let me point out that people > > using this compiler are not likely to be as knowledgable as your > > ordinary "hackers" subscriber. This sentence is characteristic of most academic environments that are not computer science departments, I think. Most of the people around here do well to know what Unix is, nevermind being sufficiently well versed to handle their path correctly. If they know more than a minimal amount of how to work with Unix, their experience is likely to be with SGIs or Crays. Of course these people aren't likely to be compiling their own programs. They just come to me and say "Do it for me!" :) [more deleted] [how to use egcs version of g77 deleted] I guess I could always do something like this: mv /usr/local/bin/g77 /usr/local/bin/g77.exe cat > /usr/local/bin/g77 #!/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH export PATH g77.exe $* ^D I've resisted such hacks because they are typical of VMS software ported to Unix with the absolute least amount of effort necessary. OK, I'll shut up. (mutter, mutter, mutter, ;-) > -- > Steve > > finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu > http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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