On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:54:12AM -0800, Brian T. Brunner wrote: > > 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. > gfortran does not implement all of the horrible hacks and compiler flags found in g77, so a symlink of g77 pointing at gfortran is inappropriate. That being said, I've found very few Fortran 77 (with some extensions) packages that gfortran can not compile. -- Steve