[Bug fortran/25178] New: installation of gfortran failed after deveral trys

["frank dot braun at rz dot uni-regensburg dot de" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

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.


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           Summary: installation of gfortran failed after deveral trys
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.2.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: fortran
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: frank dot braun at rz dot uni-regensburg dot de
 GCC build triplet: gcc 4.2.0 20051126
  GCC host triplet: pentium Windows 98 and Windows XP
GCC target triplet: i686-pc-mingwin32 / gfortran


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25178