On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Donald Lee wrote:

> At 6:55 AM -0600 2/28/01, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> >On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 jimtnelson@earthlink.net wrote:

> >> More generally, g77 crashed on my during compiling with optimization set
> >> to "O".  Are there big problems with g77 for macppc netbsd 1.5?
> >
> >I've not used g77 on macppc, but have found it somewhat buggy on some
> >other non-i386 ports.  You might try the lang/f2c package.  That package
> >includes a script 'f2c-f77' which does a pretty good job of acting just
> >like a fortran compiler.  It should accept most of the same flags as g77.
> >
> >-Dan
> 
> I'd be cautious about f2c.
> 
> For serious FORTRAN codes, the translation may not be very good.

well, I have never had a f2c problem and I've used it to build large math
packages such as scilab.  So, its really worth a shot.

-Dan