In article <20060118180924.GA15304@sta.duo>,
George Georgalis <george@galis.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:18:32PM -0500, Johnny Lam wrote:
>>George Georgalis wrote:
>>>
>>>The Intel fortran is an option we'd like to keep open as it could
>>>become a requirement. We presently use g77. The emulation system
>>>looks pretty slick, I only see suse in pkgsrc. What's the simplest
>>>way to do RedHat or Debian? I can imagine a few ways... I'm just
>>>looking for the big picture here. f2c sounds interesting too, will
>>>have to try that out.
>>
>>I'm in the middle of working on a new pkgsrc framework to handle all the 
>>emulation packages.  When it's committed (probably some time in 
>>February), you'll be able to select the particular flavor of Linux 
>>userland you want to install and run from pkgsrc.  If you're interested 
>>in doing testing for this before it's committed, please drop me a note.
>>
>
>okay. that may come up.

I used RedHat in the past to do some specific tests. I just needed to tar
the lib directories and setup a minimal /etc/...

christos