Updating to include note about bad make with cygwin 1.0, and success with

Compaq Fortran 6.1 .

Tom


git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/flesh/trunk@1925 17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/doc/README.NT b/doc/README.NT
index 43f8adcc..8cb2f1ad 100644
--- a/doc/README.NT
+++ b/doc/README.NT
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ the CCTK on an NT (or Windows 2000) platform.
 Apart from the required software noted in the manual, you must install
 the cygwin package available from http://www.cygwin.com .
 
-After installing Cygwin, you must make sure that the GNU CPP is
-somewhere on your path, and that the directory path leading to it
-contains no names containing un-escaped spaces - these would confuse
-the autoconf program.
+IMPORTANT: After installing Cygwin, you must make sure that the GNU
+CPP is somewhere on your path, and that the directory path leading to
+it contains no names containing un-escaped spaces - these would
+confuse the autoconf program.  Failure to do this will result in
+bizarre errors in the dependency generation.
 
 In principle now all you need to do is start bash, checkout the CCTK,
 and run make.
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ Tested Software:
 Cygwin:
 ------
 Cygwin beta 20.1.
+Cygwin 1.0 (but with an updated make, see below)
 Cygwin 1.1.6
 
 Perl:
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ Microsoft Visual C 6.0
 Fortran:
 -------
 Digital Fortran 6.0 
-
+Compaq Fortran 6.1
 
 SPECIAL NOTE FOR PEOPLE USING NON-ENGLISH VERSIONS OF NT.  Currently
 the include path to find the MS C include files is set for an english
@@ -52,4 +54,8 @@ from dir /x on the command prompt (not bash), so as to get a name with
 no spaces in - this makes life a lot easier 8-( We are currently
 trying to find a way to automate the process.
 
+KNOWN PROBLEMS:
+
+Cygwin 1.0 comes with make 3.77 .  This dumps core in the make system
+and should be updated to 3.79.1, or later.