The build of GFortran-4.3.2.release with GCC-3.4.4-3 and Cygwin-1.5.25-15
=========================================================================


You can download the binaries as follow:

wget -N http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/cygwin/gfortran/gfortran-4.3.2.release.tar.bz2


To install:

   tar -xjvf gfortran-4.3.2.release.tar.bz2 -C /

   cd /usr/local/bin

   ln -sf /usr/local/gfortran/bin/gfortran.exe gfortran
   ln -sf /usr/local/gfortran/bin/gfortran.exe gfc

GFortran requires the Cygwin GMP/MPFR packages to be installed.


Using GAMMA functions with GNU FORTRAN 4.3.2
--------------------------------------------

With the version 4.3.2 of 'gfortran', the GAMMA functions called are
those shiped with NEWLIB (http://sourceware.org/newlib/), on which
Cygwin is based.

Now, the fact is that the GAMMAs implementation in NEWLIB is poor
(basically exp(ln(gamma): a similar problem happens on systems based
on GLIBC, see
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5159).

So, if one wants to use an external better implementation of GAMMAs,
one has to declare them EXTERNAL. This is highly recommended until
the problems in NEWLIB and GLIBC are solved.

A good implementation is found in Cernlib.




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