Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > I understand all this, but this case seems an odd one to me. If I am > missing a library I expect to find a clear error message that it needs > it, but here I just got nothing. I agree that this not a cygwin problem. > I have yet to update my old gfortran 4.2. on linux t

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:47:28AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > > However I have to say that I think that this is very much a cygwin > > question. Knowing what packages to install before doing something is a > > cygwin question and I got no sense that I had to do this

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- A few months ago this did not happen (same building procedure). ___ You posted this several places, and they're still arriving. Apparently, nothing has changed, except they've added this warning that the maintainers of this librar

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > However I have to say that I think that this is very much a cygwin > question. Knowing what packages to install before doing something is a > cygwin question and I got no sense that I had to do this on the gfortran > site before downloading the tar file of executables fo

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 05:19:28PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Salter-Duke wrote: work. Have things changed with these libraries since last year. This was, BTW, I relative new install of cyqwin. I just copied the gfortran and gcc4 executables over from an older m

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 05:19:28PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > > work. Have things changed with these libraries since last year. This > > was, BTW, I relative new install of cyqwin. I just copied the gfortran > > and gcc4 executables over from an older machine. I thi

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > work. Have things changed with these libraries since last year. This > was, BTW, I relative new install of cyqwin. I just copied the gfortran > and gcc4 executables over from an older machine. I think this is a > cyqwin question. No, it's not a Cygwin question. Yes, gc

RE: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 00:39, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: >> Install the required packages >> (libgmp3 and libmpfr1). > > I'll try doing that, but why does: > > gcc version 4.2.0 20060808 (experimental) > > work. Have things changed with these libraries since last year. Simple answer: yes. ch

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:22:26PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > > Just asking in general, but are you related to the people doing the > > cygwin release on the gfortran web page? I downloased the exe about 2 > > weeks ago and it did nothing. Yes, NOTHING! gfortan --ve

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > Just asking in general, but are you related to the people doing the > cygwin release on the gfortran web page? I downloased the exe about 2 > weeks ago and it did nothing. Yes, NOTHING! gfortan --version gave the > version but a gfortran complile gave no errors and no ex

RE: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran

2007-07-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 04 July 2007 14:53, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > I mean gfortran-4.3-Cygwin-i686.tar.bz2 (I may have renamed it. I can > not remember). That gives executables in /usr/local/gfortran. > > Typing gfortran -v gives after compile info:- > > gcc version 4.3.0 20070512 (experimental) > > so we are

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 02:37:44PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > > Just asking in general, but are you related to the people doing the > > cygwin release on the gfortran web page? > > NO. > > > I downloased the exe about 2 weeks ago and it did nothing. > > EXE

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran

2007-07-04 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > Just asking in general, but are you related to the people doing the > cygwin release on the gfortran web page? NO. > I downloased the exe about 2 weeks ago and it did nothing. EXE ? If you mean 'gfortran-windows-20070612.exe', it is for MINGW not Cygwin. The package

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:19:14AM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > I have build GFortran under Cygwin configuring with: > > ./configure --prefix=${prefix_dir} \ > --enable-languages=c,fortran \ >--enable-bootstrap \ >

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Angelo Graziosi
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Brian Dessent wrote: > Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > ./configure --prefix=${prefix_dir} \ > > According to the documentation you should not do this (build in the same > dir as the source.) Obviously I forgot to say: cd ${build_dir} ${gcc_dir}/configur

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Angelo Graziosi wrote: > ./configure --prefix=${prefix_dir} \ According to the documentation you should not do this (build in the same dir as the source.) > A few months ago this did not happen (same building procedure). The warning is correct because libdecnumber is only supported

RE: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Danny Smith
Angelo Graziosi Wednesday, 4 July 2007 7:19 p.m. > > > > I have build GFortran under Cygwin configuring with: > > ./configure --prefix=${prefix_dir} \ > --enable-languages=c,fortran \ >--enable-bootstrap \ >-