On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:54:03 Bill Hart wrote: > Thanks. As soon as we release, it would be great if you could give it > a go and we can issue a service release. >
Should I create a branch for it? I cant do the windows bits , Brian ? I dont do C++ , and I dont know how comprehensive the make check c++ bit is , if someone can email me some c++ programs , I can test them I can leave or delete the old directory mpbsd ? I assume we are going to leave internal names as __gmp_blah etc > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
