David Henderson wrote:
I have a question regarding the switch from gcc3.x to gcc4.x in OpenSuSE 10B3. I recently made this switch to fix a problem with my X server, but had to revert back to 9.3 because there is no g77 for 10 as gcc4.x uses gFortran. This is going to cause major problems for people in statistics and engineering as we often use a lot (and I mean a LOT) of legacy code written in F77. For instance, try removing g77 and then installing R-2.1.1 (http://cran.r-project.org) from source. It will not work, because there is a lot of legacy fortran code used.
Is there a plan for this transition, or are we going to have to spend lots of time and effort recoding the legacy code into a more modern language?
Thanks!!
Dave H should send this on the opensuse mailing list :-)
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