changeset 8105:cd0d53b55f79

update README.Cygwin
author Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri@yahoo.it>
date Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:20:11 -0400
parents fc45357bf50c
children 8a42498edb30
files README.Cygwin
diffstat 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/README.Cygwin	Fri Sep 12 15:34:13 2008 -0400
+++ b/README.Cygwin	Wed Sep 17 14:20:11 2008 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+Starting with version 3.0.1, Octave is once again part of the normal
+net distribution of Cygwin, available from http://www.cygwin.com.  
+The latest previous version available was 2.1.73
+
+It is possible to build Octave on Windows systems with Cygwin,
+but with standard gcc-3.4.4-3 compiler there are some performance
+problems related to the way C++ exception handling is implemented.
+This is a known problem with a long history so it is suggested to use
+version gcc-4.3.2-1 or later.
+
+Binary version 3.0.2-2 is built with gcc-4.3.2-1
+ 
+Current cygwin octvave mantainer : 
+	Marco Atzeri
+	http://matzeri.altervista.org
+
 An obsolete version of Octave (2.1.73) is part of the normal net
 distribution of Cygwin, available from http://www.cygwin.com.  Check
 the package list in Cygwin's setup.exe installer if you would like to
@@ -12,7 +28,7 @@
 Cygwin mailing lists for threads related to "sjlj exception handling"
 (or similar).
 
-There are also two "unofficial" Octave distributions for Cygwin:
+There is also an "unofficial" Octave distribution for Cygwin:
 
  1. http://www.geocities.jp/tmacchant
 
@@ -28,23 +44,6 @@
     This binary is maintained by Tatsuro Matsuroka.
 
 
- 2. http://matzeri.altervista.org
-
-    The binaries here aim to be an officail cygwin distribution of
-    Octave-3.0.x and are built using the version of GCC distributed
-    with Cygwin.  Performance of linear algebra functions is fine, but
-    the performance of the scripting language interpreter suffers
-    because of the setjump/longjump exception handling model used in
-    the version of GCC distributed with Cygwin.  The advantage is that
-    you don't need a special version of GCC.
-
-    This binary is maintained by Marco Atzeri
-
-We hope that Cygwin will eventually have a version of GCC that does
-not suffer from the performance problem related to setjump/longjump
-exception handling.
-
-
 John W. Eaton
 jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu
 University of Wisconsin-Madison
@@ -55,4 +54,8 @@
 Department of Molecular Design and Engineering, 
 Gradudate School of Engineering, Nagoya University.
 
-Last updated: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:01:48 EDT
+Marco Atzeri
+marco_atzeri@yahoo.it
+Italy
+
+Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:16:03 EDT