installation problem

["Frank Thomas Braun" <frank dot braun at rz dot uni-regensburg dot de>]

I tried to install gfortran following the instructions on the 
webpages 

http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinariesWindows

I did the installation two times once on a Windows XP, where MinGWin 
has been installed since more than a year. This installation worked 
properly and was able to compile samoe sample fortran programs.

But the real target computer had a Windows 98 system and yet no gcc 
installation at all. And several attempts to get a working 
installation failed. The above mentioned webpages including the there 

linked pages did not provide any hint to solve the problem.

First I installed the downloaded file gfortran-windows.exe without 
any changes.

In a second attempt I tried to install a complete MinGWin environment 

first using MinGW-4.1.0.exe. After a reboot I repeated the gfortran 
installation twice into the proposed directory C:\Programme\gfortran 
and into the MingWin directory

Each of the decribed installation trys resulted in a working compiler 

which is invocable with

gfortran -v

But the attempt to compile programs results in the error message

C:\>gfortran x.f
GFORTRAN.EXE: _spawnv: No such file or directory

I have no explanation and I didn't find help on the gfortran 
webpages.

Using the djgpp-Windows software too and seeing that in the djgpp 
mirrors there is a file gfor401b/d.zip I tried a second and different 

installation of gfortran. This installation results on both systems 
(Windows XP and Windows 98) in the error message when linking the 
program:

C:\djgpp>gfortran x.f
c:/djgpp/bin/../lib/gcc/djgpp/4.01/libgfortran.a(write.o):: undefined 

reference to `_finite'
c:/djgpp/bin/../lib/gcc/djgpp/4.01/libgfortran.a(normalize.o):: 
undefined reference to `_nextafterf'
c:/djgpp/bin/../lib/gcc/djgpp/4.01/libgfortran.a(normalize.o):: 
undefined reference to `_nextafter'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

The version is correctly indicated too:

C:\djgpp>gfortran -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: djgpp
Configured with: /gnu/gcc-4.01/configure djgpp --
prefix=/dev/env/DJDIR --disable-nls --disable-werror --disable-
checking --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,f95,objc
Thread model: single
gcc version 4.0.1

I would be grateful if anybody could help me solving the problem.

Frank BraunFrank Braun
Rechenzentrum
Universitaetsstrasse 31
D-93053 Regensburg
Germany

Tel.: +49-941-943-4891

email: frank.braun@rz.uni-regensburg.de