Subject: Re: Fortran Compiler
To: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@aros.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-amiga
Date: 01/27/1998 16:47:19
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>,
> 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
>