Fortran 77 and Fedora core 4

[Peter Teuben]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Stefan Hoelldampf wrote:

> Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> > I just installed Fedora core 4 on my machine, and I
> > realized that from GCC 4.0 I got Fortran 95 (g95).
> > However, I would like to compile a program on my
> > machine that needs Fortran 77 (g77) to compile it. 
> > Could anyone, please, let me know how could I handle
> > that? Should I install a older GCC as well? If
> > affirmative, that would cause conflicts to the last
> > GCC I  got from Fedora? Any other suggestion?
> > Thanks a lot in advance!
> > Best,
> 
> The package "compat-gcc-32-g77" should do the trick.


i installed gcc4 on another machine, and the executable for fortran was
called 'g95' there, whereas FC4 has it named 'gfortran'.... I don't 
understand why they can't make an alias to f77, since they always seem to
do it for cc also.

peter