Re: [RFU] gmp-4.2.4-2 for cygwin 1.7

[David Billinghurst <dbcygwin at gmail dot com>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> David Billinghurst wrote:
>   
> > I have a build of gmp-4.2.4 for cygwin 1.7 available for upload.
> >     
>
>   Hi David, thanks for doing this :)
>
>   
> > This is the first build for cygwin-1.7.  There are a couple of changes
> > from gmp-4.2.4-1 (for cygwin-1.5)
> >
> > 1) The DLL for C++ binding libgmpxx3 is in a separate sub-package
> > as we will need to bump the version number once g++-4 is the system
> > compiler.  This establishes a legacy package for g++-3.
> >     
>
>   I had a bit of a hiccup! <g>  Because you didn't add this new package to any
> requires: line of the other packages, it didn't get pulled in automatically by
> setup.exe; the result was that the last update silently uninstalled
> cyggmpxx-3.dll! 
Sorry about that.  AFAICT, no package actually used cyggmpxx-3.dll.  I 
need to rethink the packaging - perhaps add a gmpxx-devel package (or two).

gmp was built with gcc3.  I really didn't expect a g++-3 compiled 
libgmpxx  to work with g++-4, but I see 
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-04/msg00262.html> that you built a 
working PPL.  I will try that myself.

libgmp++ has been of little or no interest on cygwin.  This will change 
if we use it (via GRAPHITE) in gcc-4.5.  Perhaps I need to read up on 
the alternatives package, and provide versions for g++-3 and gcc-4.

   David