Package: gfortran-4.2 Version: 4.2.2-3 Severity: minor Hi Matthias et al.,
Prompted by a couple emails [1] to the ROOT devel list, I'm curious as to why no package in Sid seems to provide a libgfortran.so symlink [without the soversion] nor libgfortranbegin.a directly in /usr/lib. This makes it difficult to link a program with the main routine written in FORTRAN using g++ or gcc as the driver for ld. Currently one needs to add -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2 to the linking command before supplying -lgfortran -lgfortranbegin . [1] I'll supply a link to the thread when it becomes available on the web archive of roottalk. Is this an oversight, or a deliberate design decision? Not knowing which, I couldn't decide on the severity of this bug, so I set it to "minor". In Etch there was a libgfortran1-dev package that did supply these files (and was depended upon by gfortran-4.1), but nothing equivalent exists in Sid. thanks and best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]