On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:40:50PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>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/...

Thanks. I don't have any specific RH requirements just yet, so I
can't justify any development, but I could try some pre-commit
testing. -- Johnny, feel free to contact me off list.

// George


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