Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 19:30, N. C. wrote: > 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

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

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 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: 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 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 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" 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
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: "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

2011-04-09 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.

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,

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: 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

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://