On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:22:37AM +0100, Tobias Schl?ter wrote: > Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Tobias Schl?ter wrote: > > > >>>To add a concrete example, unlike g77 in earlier versions of GCC, gfortran > >>>is not and will not be part of the standard gcc40 port in FreeBSD. > >> > >>Do you have a pointer to where this decision is explained? > > > > That took place in private e-mail, but I happen to be that maintainer > > of FreeBSD's lang/gcc40 port, so I should be able to recall the relevant > > points. ;-) > > Out of curiosity, what are these points? Will FreeBSD be shipping g77 > instead, or is Fortran simply not important to FreeBSD? >
FreeBSD is fairly conservative with updating the system compiler. It is currently kargl[219] gcc -v Using built-in specs. Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728 I don't expect FreeBSD to move to gcc 4.x for the system compiler for several years. Also, note FreeBSD is a complete, bundled operator system (unlike Linux which is a kernel that each system vendor bundles with its own userland). -- Steve
