Need to build libgfortran.a and libquadmath.a

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 at 15:21, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
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> On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 at 14:22, Andy Bowery via Gcc-help
> <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
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> > Thank you Ruoyao for your answer on this.
> > Does anyone in the community have experience of building 'libquadmath' on the ARM  (aarch64) platform?Particularly using gcc, are there flags that I need to set in order to get it built? Or should I obtain the ARM compiler provided by ARM (which is not free unfortunately)?
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> I don't think you said aarch64 before, did you?
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> Why do you need libquadmath for aarch64? Isn't long double always
> 128-bits on aarch64, and therefore you don't need additional
> libquadmath routines to support 128-bit floats?

I think it would help if you explain what you're actually trying to
do, not just say you need libquadmath.