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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn DOT cygwin AT googlemail DOT com>
To: "Tim Prince" <tprince AT computer DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [1.7] no Fortran
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Tim Prince wrote:
> I assumed, perhaps wrongly, there was no intention to provide Fortran in
> setup.exe.

  ???

DKAdmin AT ubik ~
$ cygcheck -c cygwin gcc4-fortran
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
cygwin               1.7.0-35       OK
gcc4-fortran         4.3.2-1        OK

DKAdmin AT ubik ~

or for 1.5:

~ $ cygcheck -c cygwin gcc4-fortran
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
cygwin               1.5.25-15      OK
gcc4-fortran         4.3.2-1        OK
@_______. .
(       /"\
 ||--||(___)
 '"  '"'---'
~ $

>  I noticed under gcc-4 -v that --enable-languages includes a
> bogus selection of f77, which raises doubt about whether omission of
> fortran is intentional.

  ?????

DKAdmin AT ubik ~
$ gfortran-4 -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-pc-cygwin
Configured with: /gnu/gcc/release/gcc4-4.3.2-1/src/gcc-4.3.2/configure
--srcdir=/gnu/gcc/release/gcc4-4.3.2-1/src/gcc-4.3.2 --prefix=/usr
--exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin
--libexecdir=/usr/sbin --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc
--datadir=/usr/share --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man -v
--with-gmp=/usr --with-mpfr=/usr --enable-bootstrap
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-slibdir=/usr/bin
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-shared-libgcc
--enable-__cxa_atexit --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --with-dwarf2
--disable-sjlj-exceptions
--enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++ --disable-symvers
--enable-libjava --program-suffix=-4
Thread model: single
gcc version 4.3.2 20080827 (alpha-testing) 1 (GCC)

DKAdmin AT ubik ~
$

> I have built several snapshots of gcc 4.4 with fortran selected, which
> works OK, better than cygwin 1.5 has worked in recent months.

 ???  What does it mean to say that gcc 4.4 works better than cygwin
1.5?  One is a compiler, the other a posix emulation layer.

> The core 2
> laptop freezes and must be rebooted during the gcc bootstrap, but then
> completes the build.

  Sounds like you have BLODA trouble?

> gcc testsuite hasn't behaved as well as it did perhaps a year ago.  This
> may be due more to changes in behavior of Windows, with XP3 and all, than
> to anything in cygwin.  On my Pentium D desktop machine, most of the
> testsuite sections restart multiple times.  My Core 2 laptop terminates
> Windows before completing much of the testsuite.

  I've never seen anything like this happen to me.

> Has cygwin 1.7 been withdrawn from the mirrors?

 ??? You've completely lost me there.

  Perhaps we could start again with a clarification of what precisely the
problem is?

    cheers,
      DaveK

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