[Plplot-cvs] SF.net SVN: plplot:[12031] trunk/README.release

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Revision: 12031
          http://plplot.svn.sourceforge.net/plplot/?rev=12031&view=rev
Author:   arjenmarkus
Date:     2011-11-17 13:34:50 +0000 (Thu, 17 Nov 2011)
Log Message:
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Revised remark on possible link problems

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/README.release

Modified: trunk/README.release
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--- trunk/README.release	2011-11-17 08:27:31 UTC (rev 12030)
+++ trunk/README.release	2011-11-17 13:34:50 UTC (rev 12031)
@@ -148,15 +148,26 @@
 will happen has not been decided yet.
 
 (5.9.10) We have found that some distributions of the gfortran compiler
-on Windows (MinGW) may cause a link error due to duplicate symbols
+on Windows MinGW/gfortran compiler (i.e., MinGW/gfortran 4.6.1 and 4.6.2 from
+http://www.equation.com) may cause a link error due to duplicate symbols
 like __gfortran_setarg_. These errors can be suppressed by adding
 the flag -Wl,--allow-multiple-define. It is very likely that this
 is a bug in these distributions.
 
 As building the libraries and the examples succeeds without any problem
-if you use most other distributions, we have decided not to include this
-flag in our build system.
+if you use most other distributions of Windows MinGW/gfortran,
+we have decided not to include this flag in our build system.
 
+Distributions of gfortran that are known to work:
+- MinGW/gfortran-4.5 from http://www.equation.com,
+- MinGW/gfortran-4.5.2-1 that is installed using the latest
+  mingw-get-inst-20110802 automatic installer available at
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst
+- MinGW/gfortran-4.6.2 from tdm-gcc.tdragon.net
+
+(Therefore it is not the version of gfortran as such that causes
+this problem.)
+
 (5.9.9) This is a quick release to deal with two broken build issues
 that were recently discovered for our Windows platform.  Windows users should
 avoid 5.9.8 because of these problems for that release, and instead use

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