Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

[Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke at bigpond dot net dot au>]

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 on the gfortran
> > site before downloading the tar file of executables for cygwin. The
> > change from gcc (and friends) 4.2 to 4.3 is not something that is
> > obvious unless you are really into these things. Thanks for your help
> 
> You would have had the exact same experience on a Linux or FreeBSD
> system if you had downloaded a set of gcc4 binaries and ran them without
> their prerequisite libraries installed, and that is the sense in which I
> meant that it's not specific to Cygwin.
> 
> Like Larry said when gcc4 stabilizes to the point where we can offer it
> as packages in setup.exe, then this problem won't exist as the packaging
> system allows us to express the dependency information necessary to
> automatically install the needed prerequisite packages without the user
> having any domain-specific knowledge.  In that sense it's also a generic
> problem that you encounter whenever you step outside the bounds of
> whatever package management facility your operating system offers.

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 to 4.3 and I guess 
I will have the same problem as the linux needs upgrading too. I'll know 
what to expect than. 

Brian.

> Brian
> 
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