From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21425 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2011 12:25:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 21406 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Apr 2011 12:25:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-iy0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-iy0-f171.google.com) (209.85.210.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:25:40 +0000 Received: by iyi20 with SMTP id 20so6178106iyi.2 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:25:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.181.137 with SMTP id by9mr4281321ibb.60.1302438340168; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:25:40 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.195.91 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:25:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110409160524.GA29135@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <85C4645B18FA4D37852D725436AB741B@desktop2> From: Hugh Myers Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:33:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: newlib and long-double question To: Sisyphus Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, marco atzeri , "N. C." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-04/txt/msg00138.txt.bz2 Sisyphus, this is off topic slightly, but you might want to adjust the link on the CPAN page: http://www.loria.fr/projets/mpfr/mpfr-current/mpfr.html points to three lines of French whose meaning isn't all that clear. If that is what you want then fine, but as I remember Loria does have an English version for most of its projects--- perhaps you could link to both? --hsm On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Sisyphus wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Myers" > >> The OP is trying to build Perl itself, not use it; hence the need for >> long double support functions... > > You don't need "long double support functions" to build perl ... unless you > want to build a perl whose NV is a long double (instead of a double). > > Presumably the op wants to build a perl whose NV is a long double so that he > can make use of that extra precision. Given that he can't build such a perl, > the next best way of accessing that extra precision he wants is, imo, to use > Math::MPFR. > > Cheers, > Rob > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple