From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 16 15:20:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA28788 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:20:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28783 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:20:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA82562; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:28:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199812162328.PAA82562@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Fortran continued [Re: sysinstall] In-Reply-To: <199812162310.PAA01494@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 16, 1998 3:10:25 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:28:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Mike Smith: > > > The port *is* currently marked > > > BROKEN, which would indicate that it's crying out for a Fortran-using > > > maintainer to step in and fix it, but there's nothing fundamentally > > > wrong with it in its current organisation AFAICT. > > > > > > > finger -l fortran@gnu.org | more > > > > Seek to BETA. > > It would appear that you're very familiar with the current state of > play with Fortran compilers then. Would you care to perhaps update our > existing port, as well as maintain the port of libg77? ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/g77-0.5.23.tar.gz more README.g77 ... * To build GNU Fortran, you must have a source distribution of gcc version 2.8. Do not attempt to use any other version of gcc, because this version of g77 is designed to work only with gcc version 2.8. ... I think ports/lang/g77 should be removed, or it should point at egcs. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message