Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!awdprime!achilleus.austin.ibm.com!dls From: dls@achilleus.austin.ibm.com (David Skeen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: AIX vs standard unix Message-ID: <8272@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 91 23:18:04 GMT References: <30757@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jun3.173646.25682@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <8191@awdprime.UUCP> <1991Jun5.165004.26667@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1991Jun6.040937.11339@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: dls@dce.austin.ibm.com Organization: IBM Austin (PSP) Lines: 17 In article <30757@hydra.gatech.EDU>, richd@prism.gatech.EDU (Richard Dellaripa) writes: > >I don't understand. Just add a stanza in /etc/xlf.cfg, and make a link ... > If it's so easy to do (and I don't see why it wouldn't be), why didn't > IBM do it themselves? In this case, however, xlf isn't an f77 port. If we "did it ourselves", and f77 programs didn't port, we would be screamed at for having a broken f77. As I see it, the problem with the present situation is the fact we don't have a true f77 (I hope we'll get one). I am not an official IBM spokesman. -- Dave Skeen IBM Internal: dls@achilleus.austin.ibm.com D61/803 Zip 2603 IBM VNET: SKEEN at AUSTIN Austin, TX 78758 Internet: dls@dce.austin.ibm.com