Words cannot describe my amusement at the random, stupid .so version
numbering issues we keep having. It seems to be a system designed for
maximum brokenness.

There's obviously nothing we can do to fix this, which I can only presume
was the design.

Bill.

On 19 November 2015 at 15:45, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote:

> 'Bill Hart' via mpir-devel wrote:
> > Hmm, actually, I have
> >
> > LIBGMP_LT_CURRENT = 16
> > LIBGMP_LT_REVISION = 1
> > LIBGMP_LT_AGE = 6
> >
> > I don't see where the 10 is coming from.
>
> Libtool madness.
>
> But the flaw w.r.t. the strange change is actually in the previous
> version of MPIR;  the variable definitions in Makefile.am must not
> contain trailing whitespace (which is still the case for
> LIBGMPXX_LT_REVISION, and has been the case for LIBGMP_LT_REVISION in
> 2.7.0).
>
>
> -leif
>
> > On 19 November 2015 at 15:03, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com
> > <mailto:goodwillh...@googlemail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     That looks like a stupid bug on our part.
> >
> >     I think the best way to fix this is to correct the .so version
> >     number in our repo since the current numbering is useless.
> >
> >     Bill.
> >
> >     On 19 November 2015 at 14:28, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be
> >     <mailto:jdeme...@cage.ugent.be>> wrote:
> >
> >         The .so version number changed from
> >
> >         libmpir.so.16.0.0  (MPIR 2.7.0)
> >
> >         to
> >
> >         libmpir.so.10.6.1  (MPIR 2.7.1)
> >
> >         which is strange in several ways (it's a downgrade; did the
> >         version need to change at all for a bug-fix release?). It's
> >         probably at the basis of the problems in Sage.
> >
> >
> >         Jeroen.
>
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