From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat Jan  5 16:19:15 2008
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B9916A4AC
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sat,  5 Jan 2008 16:19:15 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org)
Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7E513C459;
	Sat,  5 Jan 2008 16:19:14 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org)
Message-ID: <477FAE00.5070001@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:19:12 +0100
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References: <477D5FE2.4080008@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>	<477D6310.2060406@FreeBSD.org>
	<477FAD02.8040505@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <477FAD02.8040505@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ...
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:19:15 -0000

O. Hartmann wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> O. Hartmann wrote:
>>> Sorry about the noise, but I miss g77 or f77 on my FreeBSD 7.0-PRE 
>>> box. Where is it? Hasn't gcc 4.2 as incorporated in FreeBSD as the 
>>> native compiler also a native fortran 90 compiler?
>>
>> No, you need to install the gfortran port.  This is presumably 
>> documented in the release notes.
>>
>> Kris
> Thank you for the answer.
> 
> Wouldn't it be more convenient for all having both the C/C++ and Fortran 
> compiler aboard the operating system since the compiler suite is a whole 
> piece?
> 
> Well, no offense, but this remembers me on the time when SUN split the 
> C-Compiler apart the OS or it looks like the behaviour of many Linux 
> distribution even splitting header files apart from the OS. Hope FreeBSD 
> will not tend to take apart header files and even the  C compiler ...

No, it's not convenient.  There is a large maintenance cost for keeping 
the fortran compiler in the base system for little gain (nothing in 
FreeBSD uses it), and it is also only of use to a small subset of 
FreeBSD users, so this is a perfect situation where moving it to the 
ports collection made sense.

Kris