Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 17:55:43 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, obrien@nuxi.com, committers@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc-2.7.2.2? Re: ports freeze in 9 1/2 hours Message-ID: <9703141655.AA08694@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <199703141503.QAA08888@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> (message from Christoph Kukulies on Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:03:56 %2B0100 (MET))
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>>>>> Christoph Kukulies writes:
>> David O'Brien wrote:
>> >
>> > I don't think it includes the Linux-alpha bits.
>> Thanks for pointing this out, I don't remember where I read the Linux
>> thing, perhaps it was in binutils-2.7, but I'm not sure.
>>
>> > I don't think all of f2c is included with g77. But g77 does use f2c's
>> > runtime librarires.
>> >
>> OK, if g77 makes it in the base distribution, we should move f2c to the
>> ports tree, like Satoshi suggested.
> I'm voting strongly against making g77 the default fortran compiler.
> f2c is far more mature, believe me. And it has a much longer history.
I agree, but It would be nice to have a working g77 port so that we
can benchmark/compare the latest g77 with f2c :-)
> What were the arguments for g77 ? - sorry I missed the start of this
> thread.
One big advantage of g77 is that you can use gdb to debug your fortran
code. It also benefits from the gcc improvements.
Jean-Marc
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