From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 14 14:38:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9A337B82E for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-024.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.24]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA83607; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:38:33 GMT (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA09386; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:38:26 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Jose M. Alcaide" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: suggestion: a g77 -> f77 link Message-ID: <20000314143826.D9311@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <38CD1091.94E73AC9@we.lc.ehu.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38CD1091.94E73AC9@we.lc.ehu.es>; from jose@we.lc.ehu.es on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:00:17PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:00:17PM +0100, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > I found that the "configure" script, when instructed to use the > GNU Fortran compiler, searchs for "g77". Unfortunately, this compiler > is installed as /usr/bin/f77. Fix Scilab-2.5's config script and send the patch to its author. Alternately, send-pr an update to the math/Scilab port. > The solution is simple: "ln f77 g77", but I think that the "g77" link > should be standard, since it's coherent with the existence of the "cc" > and "gcc" links. NO. I will not apply this link. BSD has always had a "f77" command. It has not always had a "g77" command. The G77 developers should have installed a "f77" compatability link. It is their fault this misspelling is perpitrating forward. All the world is not Gfoo. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message