From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 14 17:57:40 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 D54D837B8B4 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:57:37 -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 BAA63008; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 01:57:36 GMT (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA09719; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:57:36 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suggestion: a g77 -> f77 link Message-ID: <20000314175736.A9701@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <38CD1091.94E73AC9@we.lc.ehu.es> <20000314143826.D9311@dragon.nuxi.com> <200003142240.RAA51932@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200003142240.RAA51932@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 05:40:48PM -0500 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 Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 05:40:48PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > 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. > > s/77/cc/g; Due to your typical verbosity, I am left to wonder what you are trying to say. *IF* I understand what you are trying to say, here is my answer: if I were to start fresh with with bringing in the first C compiler into FreeBSD, it would not have a 'gcc' name to it -- only 'cc'. There is too much conflicts with other GCC ports or people installing their own copy of GCC. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message