> Ah. Thanks for the info. I asked because some of the physicists and > atmospheric scientists I work with are likely to insist on having > FORTRAN. I still have not figured how I will deal with that if at all.
it's not just the FORTRAN but supporting libraries, sometimes large ones, including ones in C++, are often required as well. i'd concluded that cross-compilation was currently the only effective route. i hadn't investigated whether something like linuxemu could be used (or extended easily enough) to allow cross-compilation within the plan 9 environment. i have found a few exceptions written in plain, reasonably portable C, good for my purposes, but not characteristic of scientific applications in general.
