Hi Arjen: On 2011-11-17 13:28+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: [Alan wrote:] >>> This whole thread has been about getting the STATIC_OPTS >>> ON workaround for >>> MinGW/gfortran to work, but I am wondering if that >>> STATIC_OPTS ON >>> workaround is really necessary any more? > > I tested this with gfortran 4.6.2 from TDM (an alternative > MinGW distribution, as I could not find - then - the one > from the MinGW project itself) and for this version it > turned out that everything works fine. > > But for gfortran 4.5.0 from the MinGW 2010 project
I couldn't find that on the web. Is that a separate project or just your designation for the MinGW project itself? > I get > much less satisfactory results: the example programs > cause some nasty error when they finish. Further testing > is required, but it does not look as if we can drop that > option yet. Thanks for those additional tests. I am very glad to hear that workaround is not necessary for at least one distribution of a (very) recent MinGW version. I agree we should keep the workaround for now, but let us revisit this again in the future (say roughly a year from now). I have entered a bug report (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3439533&group_id=2915&atid=102915) to that effect to remind us. Also, the availability of these additional MinGW distributions you have discovered leads to two fairly obvious additional points: I. This interest in additional distributions of MinGW (with or without MSYS) confirms that is the most important of our Windows' platforms by far (as also confirmed by the large number of downloads of MinGW from the SF site). II. The focus of our testing of that important platform should be the "upstream" MinGW distribution you get using the latest version (currently 20110802) of the automatic MinGW (and MSYS if you like) installer you can download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst. That is the preferred MinGW installer (as confirmed by the ~30 thousand downloads of that automatic installer alone), and presumably that distribution is the basis of all other MinGW distributions. So if something works for that automatically installed upstream distribution of MinGW (with or without MSYS), that tests what a lot of people are already using for their MinGW distribution. It is also an approximate test of the other distributions of MinGW since fixes in that upstream distribution should eventually propagate to the rest, and (with luck) whatever the add-ons provided by the rest won't interfere with the PLplot results for the upstream distribution. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
