g77 debian lenny

[Mathew Peet]

Thanks for the advice, in the meantime I have downloaded the following 
from the previous version of the stable debian (etch?).

cpp-3.4_3.4.6-5_i386.deb
g77-3.4_3.4.6-5_i386.deb
libg2c0_3.4.6-5_i386.deb
g77_3.4.6-19_i386.deb
libg2c0-dev_3.4.6-5_i386.deb
gcc-3.4_3.4.6-5_i386.deb 
gcc-3.4-base_3.4.6-5_i386.deb

This fortunately doesnt get automatically removed when updating. 3.4.6-x 
is available in the stable repositories.

> I don't understand how commercial software could depend on g77, which
> hasn't been supported for 6 years, and isn't distributed with the distros
> required by hardware platforms introduced over the last year.
>

It's quite a specialised software for thermodynamics and I dont know how 
many other groups even have this programming interface available to them,
or are running in Linux for that matter. I have asked them also if there 
is an update available,and am waiting for an answer.

They recently did give an update on Linux for the main software but that 
didnt have the programming interface too so I dont know what compiler they 
are using now.

For my part I dont understand why the support of f77 has ended since many 
useful codes are available to us which have been written using that 
compiler, it is a pain for a new person to come along and have to update 
when the output has been already tested.

Thanks for reply and useful information, I am keen to find a better 
solution than my one above. Is it very useful to have this program 
available even if we need to migrate to gfortran of fort77 which are 
implimenting the standards in a different way!

Thanks

Mathew