On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 2009/1/30 Case Vanhorsen <cas...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 1/29/09, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Case,
>>>
>>> thank you, that would be very helpful.
>>>
>>> I have just finished building and testing MPIR on cygwin. Apart from a
>>> warning about undefined symbols in the library (it didn't specify what
>>> they were), it built and passed make check just fine, even with
>>> --enable-fat.
>>
>> I was able to build successfully on mingw32. I still had to delete the
>> lines containing "mpn_preinv_add" and "mpn_preinv_lshift" from fat.h.
>> I did delete all the .asm files from the /mpn directory. Did I miss
>> something?
>
> Ah, so we still have that issue. When you say you deleted *all* the
> .asm files, you don't mean you deleted every single .asm file in there
> do you?

Yes. Then I ran ./configure --enable-fat and the required .asm files
were copied back into the directory.

>
> In order to test a fix for this issue, could you try copying the files
> pre_divrem_1.c and pre_mod_1.c from mpn/x86_64/fat to mpn/x86/fat
> *before* running configure. Don't delete any .asm files and see if it
> builds. If not could you let me know what the error messages are.
> You'll have to do make clean before running make again, unless you
> check the whole repo out from scratch again.

I'll try this tonight.

>
> It's a puzzling error, as it doesn't happen on cygwin and I think my
> original diagnosis may have been wrong.
>
>>
>>>
>>> With regard to the demos issue, I *think* that this is due to use
>>> using svn for our repository. It doesn't preserve file properties, and
>>> one of the file properties for the relevant files indicates that it
>>> needs to be rebuilt, thus prompting it to try and run yacc.
>>>
>>> Quite possibly we can avoid this by building MPIR and doing make
>>> distclean before making the release tarball. When I go to make the
>>> release, I'll let you know in advance about the tarball and perhaps
>>> you can verify whether the demos problem goes away. If not we'll have
>>> to disable building of demos until we can find a proper solution.
>>>
>>
>> I was able to work around the demos issue by using "touch *.c *.h" in
>> the demos/calc directory. If you do that before you create the
>> tarball, it should work.
>>
>>> Bill.
>>>
>>> 2009/1/29 Case Vanhorsen <cas...@gmail.com>:
>>> >
>>> > Bill,
>>> >
>>> > I can test a mingw32 build this evening. I just need to work around
>>> > the demos issue. I'll compile on a few other platforms, too.
>>> >
>>> > Case
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> 
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> The fat binary support on x86_64 is now fixed.
>>> >>
>>> >> I fixed the issue with fat binaries on x86_64 machines with ABI = 32.
>>> >> Hopefully this also fixes it for cygwin and mingw. But it takes over
>>> >> 1.5 hours to build under cygwin (make completes successfully), however
>>> >> I didn't get through make check because I forgot to build in a
>>> >> directory without spaces in the name (a known cygwin bug), so it
>>> >> crapped out.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thus, I want to delay dealing with any further issues for fat binaries
>>> >> on mingw32 or cygwin until a service release, MPIR 0.9.1.
>>> >>
>>> >> So can we try again for release? Anything broken for anyone?
>>> >>
>>> >> Bill.
>>> >> >
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> >
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>

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