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changeset 11440:bfbe441f3706
Update build instructions for Cygwin before 3.4 release.
author | Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri@yahoo.it> |
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date | Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:01:19 -0800 |
parents | c2f44cba24c9 |
children | d24570cd5dbb |
files | ChangeLog README.Cygwin |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-01-04 Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri@yahoo.it> + + * README.Cygmin: Update build instructions before 3.4 release. + 2010-12-31 Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de> * NEWS: Add curl and divergence to new functions list.
--- a/README.Cygwin +++ b/README.Cygwin @@ -1,25 +1,53 @@ Starting with version 3.0.1, Octave is once again part of the normal net distribution of Cygwin, available from http://www.cygwin.com. -The latest previous version available was 2.1.73 -It is possible to build Octave on Windows systems with Cygwin, -but with standard gcc-3.4.4-3 compiler there are some performance +It is possible to build Octave from source on Windows systems with Cygwin, +but with the old gcc-3.4.4-3 compiler there are some performance problems related to the way C++ exception handling is implemented. -This is a known problem with a long history so it is suggested to use -version gcc-4.3.2-1 or later. +This is a known problem with a long history and it is STRONGLY +encouraged to use gcc-4.3.2-1 or later. + +Current binary versions are built with gcc-4.3.4-3 while +binary version 3.0.2-2 was built with gcc-4.3.2-1. + +The latest development Octave development sources (octave-3.3.54+) +are built with: + +configure --enable-shared \ + --enable-float-truncate \ + CC=gcc-4 F77=gfortran-4 CXX=g++-4 CPP=cpp-4 + lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all \ + LDFLAGS=-no-undefined -Binary version 3.0.2-2 is built with gcc-4.3.2-1 +"--enable-float-truncate" is needed for the following bug: +http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.bugs/12361/focus=12404 +Without it, one of the quadgk test will fail as +"a=a" could be false due to truncation problems with +complex numbers. + + +"lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all" is needed to bypass +incorrect libtool detection of system capabilities and +to allow shared libs building. + +Octave-3.2.4 was built using: + +configure --enable-shared \ + --without-fltk \ + --without-framework-opengl \ + CC=gcc-4 F77=gfortran-4 CXX=g++-4 CPP=cpp-4 + CFLAGS="-Dtimezone=_timezone" + + + Current Cygwin package maintainer for Octave: Marco Atzeri http://matzeri.altervista.org -John W. Eaton -jwe@octave.org - Marco Atzeri marco_atzeri@yahoo.it Italy -Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:14:40 EDT +Mon Jan 3 18:53:41 WEST 2011