F77 code under gcc

[Tobias.Schlueter@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE]

Quoting Alex Tzanov <alex.tzanov@nyu.edu>:
> Fortran
>
>     * A new Fortran front end has replaced the aging GNU Fortran 77 front
> end. The new front
> end supports Fortran 90 and Fortran 95. It may not yet be as stable as the
> old Fortran front
> end.
>
> So shall I understand no support for F77 at all? Or there are options for F77
> dialect?
> Novell site claims support for F77, but seems to me that is not true.

Fortran 77 is a  subset of Fortran 90, in other words, every valid Fortran 77
program is a valid Fortran 90 program.

For the rest of your question, I agree with Richard Guenther: your problem is an
installation problem, which is something your system vendor (i.e. SuSE/Novell)
can probably solve.  I assume that the system upgrade wasn't smart enough to
understand that it should replace g77 by gfortran, maybe looking around for a
package named 'gfortran-something' will get you further.

Regards,
- Tobi