Subject: Re: Fortran Compiler
To: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@aros.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-amiga
Date: 01/27/1998 16:47:19
	Could you submit a PR to the effect that the INSTALL notes
	should be clarified to state we ship with C & C++ compilers,
	but not the Fortran compiler?

	Thanks

		David/absolute

Definition of the day:
'Momentarily': _For_ an moment... not _in_ a moment...
(It would be preferable if more of the world could grasp the above)

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Michael K. Sanders wrote:

> In message <Pine.SGI.3.96.980127142416.4186t-100000@irony.anim.dreamworks.com>,
>  David Brownlee writes:
> >> 
> >> Two things:
> >> 
> >> o) Where is locate, after a full installation of  NetBSD 1.3 the FORTRAN
> >> Compiler (as told in the installation Doc) ?
> >> 
> >	NetBSD does not ship with a fortran compiler - where did you see
> >	a reference to one? You could get the g77 compiler from
> 
> Perhaps this line from INSTALL:
> 
>         comp    The NetBSD/XXX Compiler tools.  All of the tools
>                 relating to C, C++, and FORTRAN (yes, there are two!).
> 
> It's not clear what tools this alludes to[1] (and could easily
> be misunderstood to mean that NetBSD ships a Fortran compiler).
> 
> 
> [1]: A quick check of appropos reveals:
> 
>   fpr (1) - print Fortran file
>   fsplit (1) - split a multi-routine Fortran file into individual files
>