Dear Joachim and Simon, Thank you for your responses.
On Wednesday 04 January 2012 12:31:23 Joachim Breitner wrote: > I guess this means me... Indeed Debian has the policy to avoid modified > bundled libraries, if somehow possible. For example, we patch the build > system to use the system-provided libffi. I am curious about the precise definition of "bundled libraries". It can be arranged that the GMP source is modified at GHC build time, so the _source_ package contains the original unmodified tar of GMP (except without documentation). Nevertheless, the _binary_ GHC package will contain integer-gmp library files that contain a binary copy of GMP whose symbols have been renamed. Does this count as a "modified bundled library"? (I am guessing yes.) If such binary bundling is not permissible, would it ok to have a separate Debian package called eg libghcgmp3c2 which is equal to libgmp3c2 except the exported symbols are renamed as expected by a new integer-gmp and the files are suitably renamed to avoid any conflict with libgmp3c2? On Wednesday 04 January 2012 12:21:13 Simon Marlow wrote: > GMP is inherently broken because it > has global state, so if you want two use it from two clients in the same > program, you need two copies of it. If this could be fixed that would be fantastic. Nevertheless, I am currently unaware of how hard this might be to persue, technically or politically. (My gut feeling is that it is not straightforward.) Kind regards, Michal On 22/12/2011 22:58, Michal Konečný wrote: > > I think the following concrete changes would be required in the GHC > > distribution: > > > > (a) make a ghc build always use the bundled GMP > > > > (b) apply a renaming script onto the GMP tar before adding it to the GHC > > source bundle > > > > (c) rename symbols analogously in integer-gmp/cbits/* > > > > > > An alternative to (b) is to apply the renaming to the GMP sources just > > before building it. -- |o| Michal Konecny <mikkone...@gmail.com> |o| http://www-users.aston.ac.uk/~konecnym/ |o| office: (+42) (0)121 204 3462 |o| PGP key http://www-users.aston.ac.uk/~konecnym/ki.aston
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