Bug#473647: gcc-3.4: no g77
Package: gcc-3.4
Version: 3.4.6-7
Severity: important
I recently had trouble when upgrading to the latest debian patch of
legacy gcc-3.4-7. Apparently, there is no corresponding g77-3.4-7 as
would seem to be confirmed by the changelog.
* Don't build the following languages from the gcc-3.4 sources:
- Pascal, now based on the GCC-4.1 sources.
- Fortran 77, now superseded by GFortran built from the GCC-4.3 sources.
- C++, having a different ABI for g++ (>= 4.1) in lenny on four
release architectures.
- C for 64bit hppa, kernel builds use gcc-4.x.
I'm not quite sure I see why having more recent versions justifies
removing these languages from the legacy package. It is there for
backwards compatibility is it not? I fully agree that we need to get
FORTRAN out of the stone age, but it would be nice to at least have the
old version available to ease the transition. This should especially not
be a problem since there's no collision between the exectuable names
(g77 vs. gfortran). Even if we were to do something like symlink g77 to
gfortran in the long run, couldn't this be handled by /etc/alternatives?
Kevin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'testing'), (200, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-amd64.016 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gcc-3.4 depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpp-3.4 3.4.6-7 The GNU C preprocessor
ii gcc-3.4-base 3.4.6-7 The GNU Compiler Collection (base
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-2 GCC support library
Versions of packages gcc-3.4 recommends:
ii libc6-dev 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Development Librari
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