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To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: gcc-2.7.2.2? Re: ports freeze in 9 1/2 hours 
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 23:04:25 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > David O'Brien wrote:
> > >  
> > > I don't think it includes the Linux-alpha bits.
> > Thanks for pointing this out, I don't remember where I read the Linux
> > thing, perhaps it was in binutils-2.7, but I'm not sure.
> > 
> > > I don't think all of f2c is included with g77.  But g77 does use f2c's
> > > runtime librarires.
> > >
> > OK, if g77 makes it in the base distribution, we should move f2c to the
> > ports tree, like Satoshi suggested.
> 
> I'm voting strongly against making g77 the default fortran compiler.
> f2c is far more mature, believe me. And it has a much longer history.
> 
> What were the arguments for g77 ? - sorry I missed the start of this
> thread.

Let me suggest that we forget it for the time being..  The last thing we 
need to do in the middle of a massive set of code merges in both the kernel 
and userland is mess with the compiler...  There are far bigger fish to 
fry at the moment...  I'm sorry I mentioned it in the first place.

Cheers,
-Peter