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Re: [RFU] gmp-4.2.4-2 for cygwin 1.7
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:46:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFU] gmp-4.2.4-2 for cygwin 1.7
- References: <49ABC7B6.5030300@gmail.com> <49DC6BF3.90005@gmail.com> <49DEAE15.3080109@gmail.com>
David Billinghurst wrote:
> Sorry about that. AFAICT, no package actually used cyggmpxx-3.dll.
No, absolutely; it's quite possibly just me and maybe one or two others who
want to build cvs gcc versions using it right now!
> 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.
Rather than alternatives, I think what everyone else is planning to do is
bump their ABI versions, i.e. you'd leave libgmpxx3 as an obsolete package and
introduce a libgmpxx4, and they'd co-exist; that and all subsequent versions
would be built with gcc-4, and maintainers adjust their requires: lines when
they start using -4 to build their dependent packages.
cheers,
DaveK