Sisyphus, this is off topic slightly, but you might want to adjust the link on the CPAN page:
http://www.loria.fr/projets/mpfr/mpfr-current/mpfr.html points to three lines of French whose meaning isn't all that clear. If that is what you want then fine, but as I remember Loria does have an English version for most of its projects--- perhaps you could link to both? --hsm On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Sisyphus <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Myers" > >> The OP is trying to build Perl itself, not use it; hence the need for >> long double support functions... > > You don't need "long double support functions" to build perl ... unless you > want to build a perl whose NV is a long double (instead of a double). > > Presumably the op wants to build a perl whose NV is a long double so that he > can make use of that extra precision. Given that he can't build such a perl, > the next best way of accessing that extra precision he wants is, imo, to use > Math::MPFR. > > Cheers, > Rob > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
