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Re: ISO C90 Compiler Where to get it from ?
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: sonatabar bar <sonatabar at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: Ted Byers <r dot ted dot byers at rogers dot com>, gcc gcc <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:59:04 -0700
- Subject: Re: ISO C90 Compiler Where to get it from ?
- References: <370881.5910.qm@web62014.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: gcc gcc <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
sonatabar bar wrote:
> On CentOS 5(i386) i can install gcc using it
> add/remove package utility. But for some reason it
> only puts gcc,g++ but no g77.
That's because g77 no longer exists in gcc 4.x. The new front end is
called gfortran and I'm positive your distro has a package of it.
> So I removed it. I believe I can use the that version
> of the gcc and compile the latest version, but I
> really want to try installing from Zero. Especially
> from ISO C90.
>
> It is strange that no one really talks about where to
> get that(ISO C90) from ....rather everyone points to
> using the distribution installed tools. Is the ISO C90
> a secrete community ?? :-) Or is it so tedious that on
> would rather not talk about it. Just a thought.
I think you're misunderstanding. "ISO C90" is an adjective not a noun.
There is no such thing as "the ISO C90" compiler, only "a compiler that
is capable of compiling ISO C90 code." gcc is such a compiler, and so
installing gcc through your distro's packages and then using that to
build another version of gcc is what the instructions are saying you
must do. If you want to use another C compiler such as Intel's icc that
is also possible, but being non-free software it's much easier just to
install gcc.
Brian