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

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

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
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 Fortra

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 Gfo

Re: suggestion: a g77 -> f77 link

2000-03-14 Thread Garrett Wollman
< 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 precisely how it used to be. Then --

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 > > i

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 t

Re: suggestion: a g77 -> f77 link

2000-03-14 Thread Garrett Wollman
< 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 > is perpitrating forward. All the world is not Gfoo. s/77/cc/g;

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 auth

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