X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:19:07 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Perl and -Duselongdouble Message-ID: <20070726121907.GG19692@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Jul 26 22:09, Sisyphus wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to have a perl on Cygwin built with -Duselongdouble, so I tried > building blead (5.9.5) from source with: > > ./configure -de -Dusemorebits -Dprefix=~/Rob -Dusethreads -Uusemymalloc > -Doptimize=-O3 -Dusedevel > > but that failed, culminating as follows: > > ---------------------------- > . > . > sqrtl() NOT found. > > scalbnl() NOT found. > > modfl() NOT found. > > modfl() prototype NOT found. > > *** You requested the use of long doubles but you do not seem to have > *** the following mathematical functions needed for long double support: > *** sqrtl modfl frexpl > *** Please rerun Configure without -Duselongdouble and/or -Dusemorebits. > *** Cannot continue, aborting. > ---------------------------- Long double functions are not supported by newlib so far. There are a couple of C99 functions not available in newlib. Volunteers implementing these functions in a license compatible way (BSD, not GPL) in newlib are always welcome. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/