From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 14 17:05:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA12669 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 17:05:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eddie.mit.edu (EDDIE.MIT.EDU [18.62.0.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA12663 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 17:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by eddie.mit.edu id aa06379; 14 Sep 97 19:57 EDT Received: from ccomp.inode.com by eddie.mit.edu id aa06304; 14 Sep 97 19:46 EDT Received: (from gdk@localhost) by ccomp.inode.com (8.6.9/1.5) id TAA17189; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 19:47:41 -0400 From: Gary Kendall Message-Id: <199709142347.TAA17189@ccomp.inode.com> Subject: Re: lib/libF77 and lib/libI77 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 19:47:41 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.ORG In-Reply-To: <398.874278327@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 14, 97 04:05:27 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It wasn't too long ago that Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > yes jordan, people still do use fortran... please keep them... > > You haven't answered my question at all. I've no doubt that people > still use fortran, that was not my question. My question was *how > precisely are these libraries used* by fortran programmers and, if > they're used, why aren't they in the standard build order? > > If I can't find satisfactory answers to those questions then those > libraries are history, sorry. > > Jordan The libf77.a library is the "standard library" that Fortran programs are linked against... similar to libc.a for C. I'm not familiar with libIf77.a, but suspect it's a variation of the standard for some special feature. At any rate, they come with the GNU compiler(s), and probably should be built by the Makefiles. Regards, Gary Kendall