Urgh!! The reason MPIR_VERSION wasn't generated automatically is
because you have to do touch configure.in before autoreconf -i. Who
knows how many issues this has been causing!

Bill.

On 3 October 2012 17:00, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> OK, after an enormous number of stupid issues, I have put up a tarball
> for mpir-2.5.2. I can't create an lzma tarball and the documentation
> in the source tarball is not for the correct version (not that there
> are any changes anyway). But that's the best I can do with terrible
> tools.
>
> I've switched back to autoconf on eno instead of MinGW32 because the
> latter is incapable of producing working lzma tarballs without
> crashing. Hopefully the libtool bug fixed in MinGW32 is not relevant
> to us.
>
> Bill.
>
> On 3 October 2012 16:47, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Oh, and we are building an lzma archive with make dist, but this isn't
>> supported on the machine we do make dist from. This is getting a bit
>> silly.
>>
>> Bill.
>>
>> On 3 October 2012 16:45, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Yeah, I think this is just another autotools bug. I looked back
>>> through the gmp-h.in files and I can't see where we ever defined it. I
>>> think it is supposed to construct it itself. But some autoconf command
>>> is missing for this.
>>>
>>> Geez I hate autotools.
>>>
>>> Bill.
>>>
>>> On 3 October 2012 16:36, Brian Gladman <b...@gladman.plus.com> wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Hart Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 
>>>> 2012
>>>> 4:32 PM To: mpir-devel@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [mpir-devel] Re: MPIR
>>>> 2.6 release progress
>>>> It seems that someone has removed the definition of MPIR_VERSION from
>>>> gmp-h.in. Is there any reason for this? I don't seem to be able to
>>>> issue a release without it.
>>>>
>>>> I notice _MSC_MPIR_VERSION is now defined. I don't get why it was
>>>> changed. Isn't the former name more sensible? It's needed by configure
>>>> for example.
>>>>
>>>> =================================
>>>>
>>>> I don't think I did this - if I did it was not intentional!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Brian
>>>>
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