g77 currently requires application of a patch file to the gcc compiler
tree.
The necessary patches should be folded in to the mainline gcc distribution.
Some combinations
of versions of g77 and gcc might actually require no
patches, but the patch files will be provided anyway as long as
there are more changes expected in subsequent releases.
These patch files might contain
unnecessary, but possibly helpful, patches.
As a result, it is possible this issue might never be
resolved, except by eliminating the need for the person
configuring g77 to apply a patch by hand, by going
to a more automated approach (such as configure-time patching).
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