Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:05:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, gljohns@bellsouth.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: egcs Message-ID: <199904051605.JAA24355@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199904050747.PAA07291@spinner.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Apr 5, 1999 3:47:10 pm"
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Peter Wemm wrote:
> "David O'Brien" wrote:
> > > What will become of f77 which is in "src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/f77"? This
> > > seems to be a good time to decide what will happen with Fortran in the
> > > base FreeBSD system.
> >
> > VERY good question. I have no opinion in the matter, but will follow the
> > wishes of others (or Core, or committers, or who ever should make this
> > decision and who ever tells me which way to go).
>
> My preference is to have g77 as part of the base egcs in the tree, and if
> we need f77 (ie: the Fortran->C translator), port-ify it since it is easily
> made standalone while g77 isn't.
I already have a port of f2c and a new f77 wrapper to deal with
f2c+gcc. The includes the runtime libraries libI77 and libF77.
>
> The sticky bit is what how to handle libI77 and libF77..
>
g77 has combined these libraries into is libg77.
If g77 were brought into the tree, I think we could delete
src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/f77, src/lib/{f2c, libI77, libF77}, and
src/usr.bin/f2c.
--
Steve
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