On 2005-02-22, at 00:25, Steve Kargl wrote:
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.
That is fairly wrong. Usually FreeBSD current is ahead of the Linux
gang in terms of the compiler since about 5 years. They used to be more
conservative but this changed since about gcc 3.0 time. Nowadays they are
usually ahead of the Linux bunch. I think it would not be too surprising
to see them integrate 4.0 very quickly after it turns out to be not too buggy.
