[1489] in athena10
Re: Updates to debathena-thirdparty (Fwd: /svn/athena r23576)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Mar 10 16:24:32 2009
Cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>, Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>,
debathena@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:24:02 -0400
On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Evan Broder wrote:
> Alex T Prengel wrote:
>> I don't see any reason that gfortran can't substitute for g77 so this
>> should be OK.
>>
>> But if jikes-gij and g77 are no longer in Ubuntu, how could we re-
>> include
>> them in Jaunty?
>>
>
> Hmm...I've only done a little investigation, but g77 (specifically,
> gcc-3.4) was built by from the gcc-3.4 package. The g77 packages
> seem to
> have gone away around the time gcc 4.something was introduced. Do
> modern
> versions of gcc still include g77 and Debian just isn't building it?
g77 was replaced by gfortran in gcc 4.x. gfortran claims to support
F77 and F95.
From http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranG77
"Why is g77 currently not supported? gcc-4.0 changed the front end
interface for all languages in gcc. No volunteer or company stepped up
to update g77 to the gcc-4.0 infrastructure, so it was dropped from
the source tree. The Fortran-95 front end [gfortran] for gcc was
under active development, so it has taken g77's place as the fortran
compiler that is part of gcc."
We should probably not spend a lot of effort on getting g77 into the
release, it can stay in the locker.
-Jon
