Hi, Perl-5.22.0 will be released soon, and version 5.22 of Strawberry Perl will be built using the latest mingw runtime (version 4). kmx drew my attention to the fact that PDL::Slatec (PDL-2.007_17) fails to build with this runtime.
Unlike runtime version 3, the new libgfortran.a contains some libquadmath.a symbols - and therefore a link to libquadmath.a is needed. The simplest (and correct, imo) way to achieve this is to have ExtUtils::F77 provide the necessary link to libquadmath.a. And this is the subject of the newly created ExtUtils::F77 bug report: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104495 It's a small patch to F77.pm that's needed: ############################### --- F77.pm_orig 2015-05-18 20:00:56 +1000 +++ F77.pm 2015-05-18 20:03:29 +1000 @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ } else { $dir = "/usr/local/lib"; } - return( "-L$dir -L/usr/lib -lgfortran -lm" ); + return( "-L$dir -L/usr/lib -lgfortran -lquadmath -lm" ); }; $F77config{MinGW}{G77}{Trail_} = 1; ############################### Without that patch, PDL::Slatec will fail to build on Strawberry's upcoming 5.22 releases - and on any other mingw64-built perl (both 32-bit and 64-bit) where version 4 of the mingw runtime is being used. Can you (Chris or Karl) fast-forward a new release of EU::F77 that includes this patch ? PDL should then update its PREREQ_PM to 1.18 - but I don't think there's any need to hold back the release of PDL-2.008 because of this. (Existing perls won't need the patch, and future perls would automatically install the new 1.18 anyway.) Cheers, Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ pdl-devel mailing list pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdl-devel
