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I came across this bug on Usenet in Message-ID: <2mmrh4Fop53qU1@uni-berlin.de>. Basically, gcc needs to be compiled with the f77 USE flag in order to build g77. However, no check is done and non-developers wouldn't know what to do with the error message. The Bash built-in 'type' function can be used to find out if g77 exists on the system, and fail the build with a more useful error message. I'll attach a solution that works for me.
Created an attachment (id=36304) [edit] Proposed patch
Thanks. I've committed a slightly different fix. Feel free to take a look and critique it.