g77 problem for octave

[Steven Bosscher]

On 7/16/06, Tim Prince <timothyprince@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > On my computer, the installed version of gcc is 4.1.0-25 and i could not
> > find any compatible version of g77 to install. For the installation of
> > octave, i need exactly gcc-g77 not gcc-fortran.
(...)
> If you are so interested in using g77 rather than gfortran, it should be
> easy enough to grab gcc-3.4.x sources and build g77.  One would wonder
> why you dislike gfortran so much.

I don't think he dislikes gfortran so much, he just needs _that_
specific version of the package to install octave, I guess.

That would be a SuSE packaging problem, so I'm CC:'ing matz.

Gr.
Steven