Thanks for the advice, in the meantime I have downloaded the following
from the previous version of the stable debian (etch?).
cpp-3.4_3.4.6-5_i386.deb
g77-3.4_3.4.6-5_i386.deb
libg2c0_3.4.6-5_i386.deb
g77_3.4.6-19_i386.deb
libg2c0-dev_3.4.6-5_i386.deb
gcc-3.4_3.4.6-5_i386.deb
gcc-3.4-base_3.4.6-5_i386.deb
This fortunately doesnt get automatically removed when updating. 3.4.6-x
is available in the stable repositories.
I don't understand how commercial software could depend on g77, which
hasn't been supported for 6 years, and isn't distributed with the distros
required by hardware platforms introduced over the last year.
It's quite a specialised software for thermodynamics and I dont know how
many other groups even have this programming interface available to them,
or are running in Linux for that matter. I have asked them also if there
is an update available,and am waiting for an answer.
They recently did give an update on Linux for the main software but that
didnt have the programming interface too so I dont know what compiler they
are using now.
For my part I dont understand why the support of f77 has ended since many
useful codes are available to us which have been written using that
compiler, it is a pain for a new person to come along and have to update
when the output has been already tested.
Thanks for reply and useful information, I am keen to find a better
solution than my one above. Is it very useful to have this program
available even if we need to migrate to gfortran of fort77 which are
implimenting the standards in a different way!
Thanks
Mathew
