On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Shelby Davis wrote:

> Has anyone out there successfully compiled egcs-1.0.3a?
there is a egcs package, don't know what version

> I need a fortran compiler and I'm tired of messing around with g77.
There is also a f2c package which includes a 'f77' shell script which acts
pretty much like a fortran compiler.  I've used it with good results for
some pretty big fortran programs.


> Also, what's the procedure for submittinig a package? I'm sure a few 
> of you would like the egcs package, and bzip2, which I'm compiling to
> reduce the download time.

general info on packages:
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/netbsd/packages.html

detailed info (including how to make them):
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/netbsd/Packages.txt

just out of curiosity, what do you have in fortran?

--Dan