Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "marco atzeri" On a Linux system that I have access to, I see that those functions are in /lib/libm.* but cygwin's /lib/libm.* still seems to lack them. Is there any work around or alternate version ofthis lib that actually has these functions. I honestly do

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread Hugh Myers
The OP is trying to build Perl itself, not use it; hence the need for long double support functions... --hsm On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Sisyphus wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "marco atzeri" > >>> On a Linux system that I have access to, I see that those functions >>> are in

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread Sisyphus
- 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 do

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread Hugh Myers
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 Engli

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Hugh Myers" 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 Yes - thanks. (And it *is* OT :-) That's an old link that I'd overlooked. I can probably jus

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread Tim Prince
On 4/10/2011 4:28 AM, Sisyphus 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

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread Reini Urban
2011/4/9 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: I have recently discovered that the cygwin version I am using (1.7.7) doesn't support many long-double function, like

Re: gnutls-cli / emacs daemon stops mintty window closing

2011-04-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/10/2011 1:50 PM, Gary wrote: As I say, I've now had it happening without anything else. On the other hand, if you kill the emacs server in the normal way (via M-x kill-emacs, as explained in the server documentation), it also kills the shell process, and you can exit from mintty. Yes. As

Re: gnutls-cli / emacs daemon stops mintty window closing

2011-04-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/10/2011 2:48 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/10/2011 1:50 PM, Gary wrote: As I say, I've now had it happening without anything else. On the other hand, if you kill the emacs server in the normal way (via M-x kill-emacs, as explained in the server documentation), it also kills the shell process,

Re: gnutls-cli / emacs daemon stops mintty window closing

2011-04-10 Thread Reini Urban
2011/4/7 Ken Brown: > [Sorry, Gary, I accidentally replied to you instead of to the list.] > > On 4/7/2011 3:26 AM, Gary wrote: >> >> If I start emacs using<>  and that >> emacs session uses gnutls, then after quitting emacs (or rather, >> emacsclient - the emacs-nox process is, and should be, stil

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread N. C.
On 4/10/11, Tim Prince wrote: > On 4/10/2011 4:28 AM, Sisyphus 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

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread N. C.
Exactly, I really need to be able to build Perl whose NV is a long double. And this was just one example that I gave. I honestly think it is worth it to have long double support in cygwin (to have those functions that are currently undefined), as it seems more and more clear that A) there is a use