On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Where is the file make.bat located?

In the "win" directory. I'm testing by doing the following:

cd mpir\win
configure ABI=32 --cpu=pentium3
make
make check


>
> Bill.
>
> On 3 October 2012 15:49, Brian Gladman <b...@gladman.plus.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Hart
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:25 PM
>>
>> To: mpir-devel@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [mpir-devel] Re: MPIR 2.6 release progress
>>
>> I definitely don't think option 3 will work. We need the defines for
>> the MinGW32 build, and having just gotten that to work, I definitely
>> don't want to risk breaking it.
>>
>> Option 1 seems best to me (being ignorant of the aforementioned
>> problems with this approach). Failing that, we can try 2.
>>
>> Brian, there must be two stages to this. The first must be a stage
>> which looks through the assembly files for GLOBAL_FUNC macros and
>> outputs the relevant HAVE_NATIVEs. I assume this is your Python build
>> generator?
>>
>> ==========================
>> Yes, my build generator collects a list of the assembler files in the x86w
>> and x86_64w directory and their sub-directories and then scans these files
>> for the symbol definitions (looking for the various procedure MACROs such as
>> LEAF_PROC, FRAME_PROC etc.). These are then used to build the a symbol table
>> for each sub-directory.
>>
>> The symbols defined by the files in each directory are then used to build
>> the cfg.h files in each directory and these are then used to build the
>> HAVE_NATIVE_symbol defines.
>> ==========================
>>
>>
>> Is it this build generator which does the deletion and replacement
>> with generic files? If so, does it replace with *both* generic files,
>> one for each symbol to be defined?
>>
>> ==========================
>> No, this is done in make.bat, the command line batch file.
>> ==========================
>>
>>
>> What is the other part of the process? I mean the part that Jason says
>> has a problem with multiply defined symbols. I assume this is the
>> command line build system itself? Is that make.bat or some other file
>> where this happens?
>>
>> ==========================
>> This is an issue with make.bat (bear in mind that I know little or nothing
>> about this since it is Jason's creation that is being maintained by Case at
>> the moment).
>>
>> As I said earlier, I remember Jason having issues with files that define
>> multiple symbols but I don't recall what the problem was.
>> ==========================
>>
>>
>> Maybe with the right information, I can track down the problem and
>> find a suitable workaround.
>>
>> ==========================
>> A lot of the multiple symbols are of the form:
>>
>> carry_entry:
>>     go to entry
>> main_entry:
>>     set carry = 0
>> entry:
>>    code ...
>>
>> Another solution, at the coast of more binary code, is to duplicate all of
>> these files and define a single symbol in each file.
>> ==========================
>>
>>
>>    Brian
>>
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