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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:11:00PM +0200, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:

> > I'll bet you money that there are still companies using programs                                                              
> > written in Fortran, Cobol, and RPG                                                                                            
>                                                                                                                                 
> Certainly. But they're not complaining that their brandnew G5 with OSX                                                          
> doesn't come with a Fortran, Cobol or RPG compiler.                                                                             

Incidentally, anyone know why Apple 'crippled' gcc so that it no longer
compiles Fortran, Ada, or Java, as 'out of the box' gcc does?

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> Incidentally, anyone know why Apple 'crippled' gcc so that it no 
> longer compiles Fortran, Ada, or Java, as 'out of the box' gcc 
> does?

Are there maybe separate gcc-java, gcc-(whatever) packages you can 
install? A lot of the linux distrubtions at least are splitting 
things up quite a bit lately - SUSE 9.1 even splits up php into 20+ 
different packages, one for each PHP module. Here's all the 
different gcc packages RedHat ES3 has by default when you install 
the development tools:

libgcc-ssa-3.5ssa-0.20030801.47
gcc-objc-ssa-3.5ssa-0.20030801.47
gcc-c++-3.2.3-39
gcc-c++-ssa-3.5ssa-0.20030801.47
libgcc-3.2.3-39
gcc-ssa-3.5ssa-0.20030801.47
gcc-3.2.3-39
gcc-objc-3.2.3-39
gcc-g77-3.2.3-39
gcc-gnat-3.2.3-39
gcc-java-ssa-3.5ssa-0.20030801.47
gcc-g77-ssa-3.5ssa-0.20030801.47
gcc-java-3.2.3-39