From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 16 05:29:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA12871 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 05:29:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA12866 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 05:29:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id XAA24220; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:59:03 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA22470; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:59:03 +1030 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:59:02 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" Cc: Steve Kargl , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) In-Reply-To: <002101be28ee$0fb4fec0$1400000a@deskfix.local> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > Fortran in the base system would require everybody to waste diskspace on > Fortran. Your egcs waste wouldn't be much more than a couple of 100 MBs. If > you can't accept that, please step forward and create a decent port. Or try > and find someone on the list who can help you out. Actually it's not that big..only a few MB, depending on what you install. It does take more space to build it, though - although once someone makes a port out of the egcs fortran compiler it can be pkg_added. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message