Hi Mariah, 2009/2/4 Mariah <mariah.le...@gmail.com>: > > Bill, > > On Feb 4, 12:25 am, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> I have placed a tarball here: >> >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wbhart/mpir-0.9.0.tar.gz >> > > Some quick observations - > > 1. It looks like you have to build in the source tree. Many software > packages let you have an object directory separate from the source > directory. This is useful for networks with lots of different > architectures hanging on them. You only need one copy of the source > file.
Autotools is supposed to let you do that as standard. We may have broken something which allows that, or perhaps it was never possible with GMP. I don't know. I'll add a trac ticket and we can look at this. > > 2. The built include and library files are gmp.h, libgmp.a, etc. > Shouldn't they be mpir.h, libmpir.a? Leaving the names as gmp.h, > libgmp.a may discourage system dministrators from overwriting the > system gmp.h, libgmp.a from GNU gmp. I can see that you may need an > option for symbolic links (gmp.h -> mpir.h, etc) for legacy software > that expects (gmp.h, libgmp.a). But surely you want to encourage > projects to transition to MPIR (and not remain with GMP). We have decided not to do this for MPIR-0.9.0. Actually, none of us know how to do it aanyway! Perhaps either you or Michael can help with this. I looked into it and didn't even know where to start. We do have a trac ticket for it. Bill. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
