Philip Blundell writes: > On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 17:04, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > 3.0 fixes this problem, but then maintainers must hand-build using > > g77-3.0, which is not a viable long-term solution. I know some arches > > have 3.0 as their default compiler. So, what are the criteria, and > > what's the procedure, for changing the default g77 compiler on ARM from > > 2.95 to 3.0? Would we have to switch our C and C++ compilers as well, > > or can we just switch FORTRAN? > > I don't think that changing the default versions of gcc and g++ would be > acceptable at this stage in the game. Switching g77 on its own seems > like a great idea if the packaging supports that.
It's a one-liner in gcc-defaults. Should be limited to g77. I'll leave the decision to Phil and/or debian-arm