Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:10:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall Message-ID: <199812162310.PAA01494@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:46:44 PST." <199812162146.NAA75754@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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> lang/g77 is version 0.5.19.1 > > The current version is 0.5.23 with 0.5.24 in the pipeline. Unfortunately, > g77 as a frontend to th FSF backend has some knowledge of the backend, > and g77+0.5.23 may only work with gcc+2.8.x. > > g77 no longer uses libf2c as its runtime library. You need to > include the new libg77 in your path. > > [snippage] > > > I can't bear witness to this; I've deployed the 'g77' port for a number > > of customers now with no effort whatsoever, usually just pkg_adding the > > package and then forgetting about it. > > Tell your customers to run "finger -l fortran@gnu.org | more" > > > The port *is* currently marked > > BROKEN, which would indicate that it's crying out for a Fortran-using > > maintainer to step in and fix it, but there's nothing fundamentally > > wrong with it in its current organisation AFAICT. > > > > finger -l fortran@gnu.org | more > > Seek to BETA. It would appear that you're very familiar with the current state of play with Fortran compilers then. Would you care to perhaps update our existing port, as well as maintain the port of libg77? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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