Forttran 77

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 19:47 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 08:05:23PM -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > > mjain at lavabit.com wrote:
> > >>  hi to all
> > >>
> > >>                   I want  help to install Fortran 77 on my laptop at
> > >> present i am using FC9. please  help me .
> > >
> > > Install:
> > >
> > >      compat-gcc-34-g77
> > >
> > > It sould give you a g77 command which will compile F77 programs.
> >
> > F77 is an 'old' fortran.   Are your programs equally as old?
>
> I believe the gcc-gfortran package should support FORTRAN 77 as well as
> more recent Fortrans.  I have seen reports of some issues with gfortran,
> but I'm pretty sure it is intended to work, so problems should be
> reported as bugs.
>
> >
> > One of the generic way to find packages like compat-gcc-34-g77 is:
> >
> >       yum info all > /tmp/infoall
> >       less /tmp/infoall   # search for fortran or Fortran or FORTRAN.
> >
> > Of interest the Intel compiler suite for students has a good price.
> >
> >
> --
>                 Matthew Saltzman
>
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs <http://www.math.clemson.edu/%7Emjs>
>
This caught my eye.  I noticed that there is a gcc-gfortran compiler,
but missing is the legacy g77 compiler, more noticably, that neither
compiler appears in the cache.  This becomes self-evident when one
installs NetBeans, and notices that it cannot seem to locate the fortran
compiler because it does not appear in the /usr/lib/ccache folder.

Why is that?