Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca!system From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) Subject: Re: AIX vs standard unix Message-ID: <1991Jun5.165004.26667@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department References: <1991Jun3.173646.25682@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <8191@awdprime.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1991 16:50:04 GMT In article <8191@awdprime.UUCP> dls@dce.austin.ibm.com writes: >In article <11640@ncar.ucar.edu>, pack@acd.uucp (Daniel Packman) writes: >> Some of the differences in AIX seem perverse (eg, why not spell it f77 >> instead of xlf?) > >It's important to note that xlf is NOT f77; that's not a mere spelling >difference, the name change was justified. Gratuitous changes like this cause havoc for users, and for sysadmins trying to figure out how to make it work in a reasonable way, especially for packages that include (possibly nested) Makefiles. I assume by "f77" you mean the BSD f77 - most other vendors (HP/Apollo and SGI to quote systems we have here) call their compiler f77 even though it has no connection with BSD f77. Why do you allow your "xlc" C compiler to be called as "cc" - is it really related to the original "cc", or is it because compatability with the world is a good thing? -- Mike Peterson, System Administrator, U/Toronto Department of Chemistry E-mail: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca Tel: (416) 978-7094 Fax: (416) 978-8775