newlib and long-double question

2011-04-09 Thread Necro Cow
Hello. I have recently discovered that the cygwin version I am using (1.7.7) doesn't support many long-double function, like sqrtl, modfl, frexpl, etc. I have been reading on newlib's website, sourceware.org/newlib, that as of version 1.18.0, such long-double functions are now supported. (http://

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 08:20:13AM -0700, Necro Cow wrote: >Hello. > >I have recently discovered that the cygwin version I am using (1.7.7) >doesn't support many long-double function, like sqrtl, modfl, frexpl, >etc. > >I have been reading on newlib's website, sourceware.org/newlib, that >as of ver

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-09 Thread marco atzeri
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 08:20:13AM -0700, Necro Cow wrote: >>Hello. >> >>I have recently discovered that the cygwin version I am using (1.7.7) >>doesn't support many long-double function, like sqrtl, modfl, frexpl, >>etc. >> >>I have been

Re: cygwin 1.7.8-1 setup produces INVALID PACKAGE entries in setup.log.full

2011-04-09 Thread Ken
I just tried the latest 1.7.9-1 setup.exe (although it appears to be the same version used for 1.7.8-1) and get the same results for a clean (new empty folder) download-only operation. Is it safe to ignore these errors in the setup log? These look to me like they could be

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-09 Thread N. C.
On 4/9/11, marco atzeri wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 08:20:13AM -0700, Necro Cow wrote: >>>Hello. >>> >>>I have recently discovered that the cygwin version I am using (1.7.7) >>>doesn't support many long-double function, like sqrtl,

Delay during invocation of any CYGWIN command

2011-04-09 Thread G. Ken Holman
Hi folks, For many years I ran CYGWIN commands under XP without delays in invocation. I'm now running XP under VirtualBox and I'm pretty sure when I first moved over I was running CYGWIN commands without delays. But I don't always use CYGWIN, so I can't say for sure. But I am sure I'm now g

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-09 Thread marco atzeri
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:10 PM, N. C. wrote: > On 4/9/11, marco atzeri wrote: don't quote email address. On this list is highly unpolite. I have recently discovered that the cygwin version I am using (1.7.7) doesn't support many long-double function, like sqrtl, modfl, frexpl, etc.