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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:32:00 -0000
From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: g77 problem for octave
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Hi,

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Steven Bosscher wrote:

> On 7/16/06, Tim Prince <timothyprince@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > On my computer, the installed version of gcc is 4.1.0-25 and i could not
> > > find any compatible version of g77 to install. For the installation of
> > > octave, i need exactly gcc-g77 not gcc-fortran.
> (...)
> > If you are so interested in using g77 rather than gfortran, it should be
> > easy enough to grab gcc-3.4.x sources and build g77.  One would wonder
> > why you dislike gfortran so much.
> 
> I don't think he dislikes gfortran so much, he just needs _that_
> specific version of the package to install octave, I guess.
> 
> That would be a SuSE packaging problem, so I'm CC:'ing matz.

[offtopic, but hey]

Try compat-g77.  It's only on DVD and FTP, not on the CDs.


Ciao,
Michael.