Re: Fortran Compiler

[David Brownlee <abs%anim.dreamworks.com@localhost>]

        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@localhost>,
>  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
>