Re: suggestion: a g77 - f77 link

2000-03-21 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 06:44:04PM +0100, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: What part about "NO" was unclear? Hey, OK, don't get upset! :-) You are the maintainer, so you have the Not upset. I was just surprised by the request again. -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: suggestion: a g77 - f77 link

2000-03-20 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Hi David, Now, a week after the discussion, what do you think about my proposal of the "g77" link under /usr/bin? IMHO, the following facts are all good reasons for creating the link: - the output of "f77 -V", "f77 --version", "man f77", and "info g77"; - our Fortran compiler _is_ GNU

Re: suggestion: a g77 - f77 link

2000-03-20 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:48:02AM +0100, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: Now, a week after the discussion, what do you think about my proposal of the "g77" link under /usr/bin? What part about "NO" was unclear? -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: suggestion: a g77 - f77 link

2000-03-20 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:48:02AM +0100, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: Now, a week after the discussion, what do you think about my proposal of the "g77" link under /usr/bin? What part about "NO" was unclear? Hey, OK, don't get upset! :-) You are the maintainer, so you

Re: suggestion: a g77 - f77 link

2000-03-15 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
David O'Brien wrote: NO. I will not apply this link. BSD has always had a "f77" command. It has not always had a "g77" command. The G77 developers should have installed a "f77" compatability link. It is their fault this misspelling is perpitrating forward. All the world is not Gfoo.

Re: suggestion: a g77 - f77 link

2000-03-14 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:00:17PM +0100, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: I found that the "configure" script, when instructed to use the GNU Fortran compiler, searchs for "g77". Unfortunately, this compiler is installed as /usr/bin/f77. Fix Scilab-2.5's config script and send the patch to its

Re: suggestion: a g77 - f77 link

2000-03-14 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:38:26 -0800, "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: NO. I will not apply this link. BSD has always had a "f77" command. It has not always had a "g77" command. The G77 developers should have installed a "f77" compatability link. It is their fault this misspelling

Re: suggestion: a g77 - f77 link

2000-03-14 Thread Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami
* From: "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:00:17PM +0100, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: * I found that the "configure" script, when instructed to use the * GNU Fortran compiler, searchs for "g77". Unfortunately, this compiler * is installed as /usr/bin/f77. I think

Re: suggestion: a g77 - f77 link

2000-03-14 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 05:40:48PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: NO. I will not apply this link. BSD has always had a "f77" command. It has not always had a "g77" command. The G77 developers should have installed a "f77" compatability link. It is their fault this misspelling is

Re: suggestion: a g77 - f77 link

2000-03-14 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:57:36 -0800, "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: *IF* I understand what you are trying to say, here is my answer: if I were to start fresh with with bringing in the first C compiler into FreeBSD, it would not have a 'gcc' name to it -- only 'cc'. Indeed, that was

suggestion: a g77 - f77 link

2000-03-13 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Hello, While trying to compile Scilab-2.5 (the math/Scilab port is outdated), I found that the "configure" script, when instructed to use the GNU Fortran compiler, searchs for "g77". Unfortunately, this compiler is installed as /usr/bin/f77. The solution is simple: "ln f77 g77", but I think that