Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.5.0-0.8

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 20/03/2016 11:59, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > > If so, it might be a good idea for maintainers to test that nothing
> > > unexpected happens when they build their packages.
> >
> > Yes, that's really a good idea.
>
> I've run a fresh build of Perl on this.
>
> - there's a new signal: SIGIOT
>
> - two new symbols are found:  _POSIX_C_SOURCE  _POSIX_SOURCE
>
> - compilation complains about implicit declaration of fseeko and ftello
>    (it could have used fseek and ftell since it's a 64bit build).
>
> - eaccess is also implicitly defined
>
> - some math functions are available on 32bit, but not 64bit: acosh,
>    asinh, atanh, cbrt, copysign, erf, erfc, expm1, finite, hypot, ilogb,
>    j0, lgamma, lgamma_r, log1p, lobg, nan, nextafter, remainder, scalbn
>    (this has likely been that way for as long as 64bit exists)

only for the long double version as in 32 bit

They exist in 2.4.1
asinh
asinhf
casinh
casinhf

> I've also found that the configure script doesn't check correctly for
> import libs and thus misses libgdm on 64bit (where only libgdm.dll.a
> exists, but not libgdm.a).  On 64bit gdm is also a different version
> from 32bit.  What's the expected standard here, really?  Just .dll.a or
> both that and .a?

preferred only .dll.a

> Regards,
> Achim.