Re: Bug report as requested.

[Hugh Sasse]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Hugh Sasse wrote on Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:51:42AM CET:
> 
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> 
> Now that I don't understand.  Why does the link succeed now?
> Did you change anything other than passing -v?

Not knowingly.  Since then I have built gfortran on the one machine
and guile is happier about libraries.
> 
> > 3.4.3?  Oh, I remember having problems building fortran because of 
> > getting GMP and MPFR to work correctly.
> 
> It doesn't look like a GMP/MPFR related problem to me.

Well, I succeeded in building gcc with fortran with its own version of
GCC.
> 
> > So maybe now I have those
> > working I should try to rebuild GCC-4.1.0 with fortran before proceeding?
> 
> Dunno, but I don't see why.  I simply don't understand why
>   g77 -g -O2 -o fprogram fprogram.o  ./.libs/libfoo.a
> 
> should fail but
>   g77 -v -g -O2 -o fprogram fprogram.o  ./.libs/libfoo.a
> 
> should succeed?  But maybe I have misunderstood something here.

Well, I think I'll let this go for now.  I've not managed to build
Guile yet, but I don't seem to have all the necessary functions.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
> 
Thank you for helping me get this far. I'll now seek help from the
guile people.
        
        Hugh