On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
Sadly its packaged as a sub-package of gcc srpm, so it cant be easily handed off over the Core/Extras barrier. And if the sub-package were simply not included the people who need it, like me, will end up rebuilding the gcc srpm to renable the gcc-f77 subpackage.
To chime in a bit more into this g77 issue - gcc-g77 acts as both: provides:g77[compiler], libf2c-devel[libraries]
If a user[/developer] needs to compile a piece of scientific c++ code which uses a fancy c++ foobar package - which inturn offloads some work to fortran libraries like 'blas' - then the following depencency exists [even though this user never has to compile any F77 code]
user-code -> foobar-package -> blas [aka devel] -> libf2c-devel i.e needs gcc-g77 package to be installed.
Also - making it difficult to get g77 makes fedora difficult for cluster computing [where codes of the above type are pretty common]
Satish
