From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 14 17:50:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from m3.cs.berkeley.edu (m3.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.45.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F0B037BA31; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:50:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@stampede.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca14-117.ix.netcom.com [205.186.215.117]) by m3.cs.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29928; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:50:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@stampede.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id RAA21849; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:50:04 -0800 (PST) To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: "Jose M. Alcaide" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: suggestion: a g77 -> f77 link References: <38CD1091.94E73AC9@we.lc.ehu.es> <20000314143826.D9311@dragon.nuxi.com> From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 14 Mar 2000 17:50:00 -0800 In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:38:26 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * From: "David O'Brien" * 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. I think this is a reasonable request. * 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. Yes, but ours *is* a GNU Fortran77 compiler. It is perfectly sane for programs to look for "g77" if they want GNU Fortran77 (for whatever reason). === >> f77 -v 2>&1 | head -1 g77 version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) (from FSF-g77 version 0.5.25 19991024 (release)) >> f77 --version GNU Fortran 0.5.25 19991024 (release) Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. For more version information on components of the GNU Fortran compilation system, especially useful when reporting bugs, type the command `g77 --verbose'. GNU Fortran comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of GNU Fortran under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING or type the command `info -f g77 Copying'. === Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message