Thanks. As soon as we release, it would be great if you could give it a go and we can issue a service release.
Bill. 2009/2/4 <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com>: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---