Subject: Re: gcc3 deletion
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/06/2006 14:39:27
On Nov 6, 2006, at 8:11 AM, Patrick Welche wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:32:13PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 20:18 +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:40:14AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:10 +0100, Adam wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> By the way, is there a reason we don't have f77 anymore? :)
>>>>
>>>> Because there is no f77 in gcc-4.  It's in the process of being  
>>>> replaced
>>>> with f95; but that's still somewhat of a work-in-progress.
>>>
>>> What of gfortran?
>>
>> gfortran is an f95 compiler.
>
> OK, to rephrase that:
>
> tape2: {15} gfortran -v
> Using built-in specs.
> Target: i386-unknown-netbsdelf3.99.19
> Configured with: /usr/src/local/gcc/configure --prefix=/usr/local/ 
> gcc4 --enable-languages=c,c++,java,fortran --with-mpfr=/usr/local -- 
> with-gmp=/usr/local --with-system-zlib
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 4.2.0 20060519 (experimental)
>
> was good enough to compile Siesta, so "Is there a reason we don't have
> gfortran?"

because it requires mpfr and gmp.