Re: Testing __float128

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo dot graziosi at alice dot it>]

Il 01/09/2010 16.43, Steve Kargl ha scritto:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 04:09:25PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> > FX wrote:
> > > ** How to build? **
> > >
> > >   -- Get the latest libquad from
> > >   http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~coudert/tmp/libquad.tar.bz2 , then
> > >   ./configure --prefix=/foo&&  make&&  make install
> >
> > Out of curiosity, I tried this on Cygwin, and obviously:
> >
> > $ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/foo&&  make&&  make install
> > [...]
> > checking whether __float128 is supported... no
> > configure: error: __float128 support is required to build this library.
> >
> > So, what does Cygwin people need to have QP with gfortran?
> >
> > I have tried to build libquad with gcc-4.3.4 (from Cygwin packages) and
> > with gcc-4.6 (my build of the last snapshot).
       ^^^^^^^^^


> >
>
> I believe one needs to have gcc-4.5 or newer to build libquad.

Besides gcc-4.6, I have tried also with gcc-4.5.0 from Cygwin exp. 
packages, but same result.

Now, I am following Tobias's suggestions... in a few hours the answers!

Ciao,
Angelo.