If Jason agrees that this is a fix, and gets time to make the changes
to trunk and mpir-1.0 before I go to sleep (I'm just packing bags
now), I'll issue rc5. Otherwise it won't make it.

Bill.

2009/3/29 mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni-dortmund.de>:
>
>
>
> On Mar 29, 2:43 pm, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I've put release candidate 4 up. This fixes the yasm configure error
>> when -pc is present in the hostname.
>>
>> Known issues:
>>
>> * MSYS and mingw32: --enable-fat build failure
>> * Cygwin32: make check fails if build path contained spaces
>> * X86 32 bit Apple gcc: no PIC support in assembly code
>> * Make tune will core dump with small probability on loaded machines
>> * Possible memory leak in t-locale
>> * Berkeley MP functions temporarily unsupported in this release
>> * Fat binary x86_64 build will fail with old GNU and Sun assembler
>> versions 30/36 Yasm tests will fail on some Sun x86 32/64 systems
>> (harmless)
>> * On some Darwin Tiger systems a linker bug will cause make check to
>> fail.
>> * Old versions of the GNU assembler on Cygwin32 will have a problem
>> with dive1.s (doesn't know how to handle relocations)
>
>
> There is one more issue: We hard code make into a couple places
> instead of using ${MAKE}. The following patch by Peter Jeremy should
> fix that.
>
> --- gmp-mpir-0.9/src/yasmbuild/Makefile~        2009-02-10 13:13:55.000000000
> +1100
> +++ gmp-mpir-0.9/src/yasmbuild/Makefile 2009-03-01 18:51:50.778359197
> +1100
> @@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
>  # 02110-1301, USA.
>
>  default:
> -       cd ../yasm; ./configure; make
> +       cd ../yasm; ./configure; ${MAKE}
>  all: default
>  clean:
> -       cd ../yasm; make clean
> +       cd ../yasm; ${MAKE} clean
>  distclean:
> -       cd ../yasm; make distclean
> +       cd ../yasm; ${MAKE} distclean
>  check-recursive:
>  check:
>  install:
>
> This isn't a very high priority fix, but it would be nice to have in
> MPIR 1.0.
>
>> We are uncertain whether the final issue needs to be fixed before a
>> final release or not.
>>
>> Bill.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
> >
>

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