M.R. Francis wrote:
> 1)  I have successfully installed the g95 compiler (no ebuild), and once
> configured properly, emerge does end up using it.  I installed Octave,
> and autoconfig found and apparently used g95.  Might that be a good,
> free (as in speech) alternative to ifc?
> 2)  Does anyone know what the status is for gcc-4, with support for
> Fortran 90/95?

The gfortran in portage gcc-4.1 snapshots is quite capable although
still missing some features compared to g77 [1]. The gfortran in gcc-4.0
is still reasonable.

> I'm not using Fortran much these days, but I can give a shot at writing
> an ebuild for g95 and submit a bug.

It certainly wouldn't hurt to also have a g95 ebuild, as they do have
different capabilities.

Thanks,
Donnie

1. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19292

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