To Werner and Arjen: For your information, during the course of a discussion on the CMake list I discovered that MinGW now has official "technology preview" packages for gcc 4.x. That is important from the gfortran perspective since that compiler is not available for the stable MinGW gcc 3.x packages.
It appears from the release notes linked at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=241304, that MinGW gcc 4.2.1 is much more stable than MinGW gcc 4.3.0. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:08:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andreas Pakulat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CMake] FindBoost.cmake updated on the bugtracker On 2008-04-13 11:04+0200 Andreas Pakulat wrote: > [...]I'll be the first one to try out MinGW which comes with gcc 4.x [...] The MinGW team officially releases their packages at SourceForge. From http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=241304 there is a gcc 4.3.0 release with big warnings in the associated release notes about its alpha quality. However, there are some "technology preview" MinGW gcc-4.2.1 packages available at the same site which from the release notes appears to be much more mature than 4.3.0 but less mature than MinGW gcc-3.4.5. Anyhow, if anyone wants to experiment further with MinGW builds of software that absolutely requires gcc 4.x, then probably the official gcc 4.2.1 MinGW release is the one to try at this time. As far as I know, PLplot windows developers have not tried this version yet, but I assume it is on their agenda. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
