Actually, it seems MPIR does not rename mpir.h to gmp.h on any system when --enable-gmpcompat is issued. So that is a bug in the MPIR build system.
Hopefully it also happens to be causing the bug reported by the Sage guys because I am unable to reproduce it. Bill. 2009/11/13 Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com>: > I just tried building Pari against mpir-1.3.0-rc3 with --enable-fat on > 32 bit linux, and it worked fine, although for some reason on the > machine I built on I had to manually rename mpir.h to gmp.h. (Perhaps > Jason Moxham can look into why --enable-gmpcompat didn't do this for > me - this is on Cicero Jason). > > Perhaps in the case of Sage it is picking up a wrong gmp.h header? > Check that gmp.h in the Sage include directory actually came from > MPIR. If not, rename mpir.h to gmp.h. > > Still not sure why that should cause the compiler to segfault though. > That just shouldn't happen. > > Bill. > > 2009/11/13 Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com>: >> The compiler itself segfaulted. I don't see how that can be caused by >> MPIR. You aren't even linking with MPIR at that point. You are only >> including gmp.h whilst compiling something else. >> >> In order to build the MPIR test suite after building MPIR with >> --enable-fat, gmp.h must be included and compiled. So we know the MPIR >> code itself should be ok. >> >> The bug may be triggered when building Pari against some version of >> MPIR, but in this case it is far more likely the bug is elsewhere. >> Certainly there is a bug in gcc irregardless, as compilers are not >> supposed to segfault, no matter how broken the code is you are >> compiling (unless you have some broken environment variables hanging >> around). >> >> Bill. >> >> 2009/11/13 William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Hi Mike (cc: sage-release), >>> >>> See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7451 >>> >>> It turns out that MPIR with enable-fat causes "internal compiler >>> errors" to occur later on when building PARI, evidently. >>> >>> William >>> >>> -- >>> William Stein >>> Associate Professor of Mathematics >>> University of Washington >>> http://wstein.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
