On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:35:24 Bill Hart wrote: > 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. >
I know how to do this , mostly. Jason > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
