On Thursday, 19 November 2015 17:37:12 UTC, Bill Hart wrote:
>
> You can understand my confusion then, as in MPIR 2.7.0 we had:
>
> LIBGMP_LT_CURRENT = 16 
> LIBGMP_LT_REVISION = 0
> LIBGMP_LT_AGE = 6
>
> and in MPIR-2.7.1 we have:
>
> LIBGMP_LT_CURRENT = 16
> LIBGMP_LT_REVISION = 1
> LIBGMP_LT_AGE = 6
>
> leading to .so version numbers 16.0.0 and 10.6.1.
>
> So just to get this straight, because I think this is absolutely 
> hilarious: the previous version numbers were totally screwed up because of 
> whitespace. I am just now recovering from the effects of the side-splitting 
> laughter that ensued. Given how idiotic the vim editor is, I cannot be the 
> only person who has hit this bug.
>

https://github.com/bronson/vim-trailing-whitespace
is your friend.
 

>
> Thanks to Leif for tracking this down. I don't think there is any way I 
> could have even guessed that this would be the problem. 
>
> I've just now committed a patch to remove the remaining whitespace in 
> Makefile.am.
>
> Bill.
>
> On 19 November 2015 at 15:45, leif <not.r...@online.de <javascript:>> 
> 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 <goodwi...@googlemail.com 
>> <javascript:>
>> > <mailto:goodwi...@googlemail.com <javascript:>>> 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 <jdem...@cage.ugent.be 
>> <javascript:>
>> >     <mailto:jdem...@cage.ugent.be <javascript:>>> 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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