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From: giffunip@asme.org
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Subject: f2c is buggy and seriously outdated (again)
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>Number:         5005
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       f2c is buggy and seriously outdated (again)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 10 17:10:02 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Thu Apr 22 16:22:41 EDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jul 12 07:30:01 PDT 1999
>Originator:     Pedro Giffuni S.
>Release:        2.2.2-Release
>Organization:
U. Nacional de Colombia
>Environment:
not relevant
>Description:
While trying to correctly build the latest version of BLAS port, netlib
maintainers reported our version of f2c must be updated.
Current f2c version is dated Sept. 21 1997.
Thanks to Eric Grosse and
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to build BLAS port by taking away the "degrading" patch. Other 
soon-to-be ports also seem to be affected.
>Fix:
Update to the latest version as suggested by Netlib's team. 
	http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/f2c/index.html
While at this, this enhancement might also be pertinent (untested)
	http://extweb.nag.co.uk/public/f2c.html
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Pedro Giffuni S." <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:  Subject: Re: misc/5005: f2c is buggy and seriously outdated (again)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 01:28:47 +0000

 FWIW, I just noticed Jordan updated this for 2.2.5 (Sept. 15)...so it is
 not "critical" or "high" priority, but there are still two minor updates
 from that version:
 ______
 Wed Sep 17 00:39:29 EDT 1997
   libi77: fmt.[ch] rdfmt.c wrtfmt.c: tweak struct syl for machines with
 64-bit pointers and 32-bit ints that did not 64-bit align struct syl
 (e.g., Linux on the DEC Alpha).  This change should be invisible on
 other machines.
 
 Sun Sep 21 22:05:19 EDT 1997
   libf77: [de]time_.c (Unix systems only): change return type to double.
 _______

From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:  Subject: Re: misc/5005: f2c is buggy and seriously outdated (again)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 01:42:50 -0500

 Please update, f2c has received many updates since the last PR. I also
 get this error repeatedly (2.2.5R):
 _______
 /var/tmp/cc0015591.o: Undefined symbol `_exit_' referenced from text
 segment
 /usr/lib/libf2c.so.2.0: Undefined symbol `_exit_' referenced
 *** Error code 1
 _______
 
 And it doesn't occur on other systems that use f2c.
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: mph 
State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 22 16:22:41 EDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>                     

PR misc/5005 can probably be closed.  f2c is no longer in FreeBSD-current. 
f2c was upgraded before FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE.  The PR is for 2.2.2 which          
has long been superceded by numermous releases.    

--                                                             
Steve 

From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/5005: f2c is buggy and seriously outdated (again)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:56:53 +0930 (CST)

 Hi Pedro,
 
 Does this PR still apply to -current and/or -stable? There have probably been
 quite a few changes since the last time this was touched.
 
 Thanks!
 
 Kris
 
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