gfortran fails under wubi

[Paul Richard Thomas]

Dear George and Steve,

Several of us have been using VMPlayer and/or VirtualBox for gfortran
development under linux but embedded in Windows.  I have never
encountered any problems whatsoever.  Various versions of Ubuntu are
available for VMPlayer, for which the partition can be expanded in the
latest version, and you can install your favorite distribution with
Virtual Box.  For historical reasons, I am more or less committed to
the former but would recommend the latter very strongly.

> Also note that you can run gfortran on windows
> with either cygwin or mingw.  Your customer can
> use that.

Indeed.  In fact, the mingw version is the least painful
implementation for Windows addicts, since it is effectively native.
At various times, I have used Cygwin for development but the slowness
of forking almost brings the testsuite to a standstill.  Still worse,
Vista assumes that a.exe is a virus and objects badly to testcases
that are designed to produce errors :-(  I have yet to try again on
Windows 7.

Cheers

Paul