Re: F77 code under gcc

["Brian T. Brunner" <brian.t.brunner@gai-tronics.com>]

My error: g77, g90, g95... the point being that if the new compiler 
is a true superset of the old (this is not true for gcc v3.4 which is not 
a true superset of gcc 2.97) then simple name links give everybody 
what they want and need.

Brian Brunner
brian.t.brunner@gai-tronics.com
(610)796-5838

>>> "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> 11/04/05 02:16PM >>>
Brian T. Brunner <brian.t.brunner@gai-tronics.com> writes on 
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:45:51 -0800:

>> I would recommend to the package-wrapper folks to put a sym link
>> named f77 alongside f90 & f95 & gfortran.

Please do NOT do that.  The gcc family runs on many different
operating systems where there are already vendor-provided compilers
named f77, f90, and f95.  Historically, the GNU compilers have had
names like gcc, g++, g77, gpc, gnat, gfortran, ..., avoiding name
collisions with compiler products from other suppliers.  It is
generally only in the GNU/Linux and BSD worlds that the GNU compilers
have also been installed in /usr/bin under the names cc and f77.

Let's keep distinctive names for the GNU compilers.

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