Mike Smith wrote: > > "David O'Brien" wrote: > > > I've got a Bmaked contribified version of EGCS, but didn't do g77. So > > > maybe a consensus should be made what to do about FORTRAN in the base > > > system. > > > > If you are collecting votes, please add mine; I feel quite strongly > > (knowing the scientists that I do that use Fortran) that it _should_ > > be in the base system. Please include it. > > We've already established that it doesn't need to be in the base system.
This may be true of f2c because it is not tightly bound to the FSF compiler technology. > Your scientist friends are probably already going to be installing > their favorite text editors; it's no harder to install the Fortran > support. g77 is a frontend to the FSF compiler backend, and thus it is bound to specific versions. So, it could become a support nightmare to ensure a g77 port is in sync with the egcs backend in the base distribution. It might even be impractical to try to build a standalone g77 port. -- Steve finger ka...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
