[Numpy-discussion] Re: Problems building numpy

[Stephen Walton]

Robert Kern wrote:

>Well, there's libf2c which is a library provided by f2c, a program that converts
>FORTRAN to C. And then there's libg2c which is provided by g77. They really are
>different 
>
Oh, I knew that.  My point was that there were some old Redhat releases 
(I don't recall if 7.3 is that old, probably not) which didn't include 
g77, just an f77 shell script which called f2c and cc.