* From: Glenn Johnson <gjohn...@nola.srrc.usda.gov> * Your points are well taken. I had a local port of g77 that built * against our current gcc. I never submitted it however for a couple * of reasons: * * 1. The port I had was for 0.5.19. This will build against our current * gcc, but g77 has advanced significantly since then. Unfortunately, the * newer versions need gcc 2.8. It was simply easier for me to use the * newer versions of g77 with gcc 2.8 or egcs release versions. Note that I * said easier for me; some colleagues of mine could/would not want to have * to maintain a compiler on their own. Yes, I was told this on a couple * of occasions. I can not see a point in me becoming the g77 0.5.19 port * maintainer when I am using newer versions of g77.
I wasn't blaming you (or anyone in particular, for that matter). You don't even have to become a maintainer. But if you have a fix to the build problems, and you think it is an important enough piece of software for you and other people, please send in a patch so it can be built. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
