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Re: libgmp missing on 9.4 Suns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Sun Jul 10 00:13:57 2005
Message-Id: <200507100413.j6A4DkgL017454@astrophel.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:09:07 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:13:46 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 02:08 -0400, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>> libgmp seems to be missing on 9.4 Suns (presuming it isn't somewhere I
>> can't find). Could it please be added to the release?
>
>We opted to remove gmp from the release because it doesn't work under
>Solaris 10, and porting gmp's assembly code is beyond us. From a
>release perspective, it was only used optionally by librep, which was in
>turn only used by sawfish, which could get along just fine without the
>gmp functionality in librep.
Darn- I need it for an octave build I'm doing. FWIW, I was able to get
the libs built on Athena 9.4 by using gcc 3.2.1 in the gcc-3.2 locker,
after reading the GMP Web page advice to use older gcc versions- but
then I couldn't build the tests due to header conflicts; by switching
back to /usr/sfw/bin/gcc at that point, the tests built and all
passed.
I also tried copying the Athena 9.3 locker libgmp* to the octave locker,
and things seemed to work on an Athena 9.4 machine for the limited number
of things I could test.
Do you have any advice as to which of these is most likely to work properly
on Athena 9.4?
Thanks,
Alex
