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Re: g77 in SL 5.1
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:22:24PM +0100, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> >I installed SL5.1 and seems g77 isn't installed.


Yes, in recent GCCs, the very nice g77 compiler was replaced by something
called gfortran. If I remember right, the main reason was the retirement
of the g77 main author and maintainer.

The new compiler is written by some new people and it strives to implement
the recent Fortran standards (F-95, etc).

Last time I looked a few years ago, compatibility with Fortran-II,
Fortran-4, DEC Fortran, Fortran-77 and need to compile antique (but still
quite usable) programs was not high in the priority list for gfortran
developers.


> If you really need g77/f77 then there is a compat package using the old 
> gcc-3.4 but beware...


Amen.


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Konstantin Olchanski
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