Help building gcc

[Andrew Haley]

On 02/09/2010 07:22 PM, afkoeppel wrote:

> I am brand new to linux/unix and I am trying to install a program that
> requires gfortran.  My understanding is that gfortran is part of gcc, and
> that I therefore need to install gcc to run it. 

You almost certainly do not need to build gcc yourself to get gfortran.

Most, if not all, Linux distributions provide gfortran as a pre-built
package.  If you had told us which Linux distribution you were using,
we might have been able to tell you how to install gfortran.

Andrew.