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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:47:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov, gljohns@bellsouth.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com
Subject:   Re: removing f2c from base distribution
Message-ID:  <199901271747.JAA11749@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199901271729.JAA67196@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> from Satoshi Asami at "Jan 27, 1999  9:29:38 am"

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Satoshi Asami wrote:
>  * The g77-0.5.19(.1) is *extremely* out-of-date.  It should be dropped from
>  * the ports collection, and if someone wants to use g77, then they should
>  * install egcs.
>  * 
>  * The newer versions of g77 do not work with gcc-2.7.2.x.  The author of
>  * g77 states that you shouldn't even try to back port g77 to any version
>  * of gcc earlier than gcc-2.8
> 
> Well, Glenn said he got it to work with our compiler. :)

Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought Glenn got g77-0.5.19 to 
work with our gcc-2.7.x.   g77 is now at version 0.5.24.  Those
micro numbers are significant changes, and these represent over
a years work on g77.

finger -l fortran@delysid.gnu.org |more


> 
> But anyway, I don't have any problem to delete the g77 port for now.
> Is that ok with everyone else?
> 
> Satoshi
> 


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Steve

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