Probably GAP uses some of the GMP internals. As far as I know, we don't test MPIR against GAP. It sounds like we should.
Bill. On 14 March 2012 02:55, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi MPIR devs > > Do any of you know what Dima is alluding to below? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:18 AM > Subject: [sage-devel] Re: Upgrading the optional GMP spkg > To: sage-de...@googlegroups.com > > > > > On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:30:07 UTC+8, Simon King wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> I had problems with the optional gmp-4.2.1 spkg. After some half- >> succeeding attempts to fix it, I tried to upgrade the spkg to the >> latest upstream code: It works like a charm (i.e., builds and passes >> self-tests)! >> >> If someone is interested: #12661 provides a new gmp-5.0.4.spkg >> (intended to be optional, of course) and needs review. > > > that's the version of GMP used by GAP 4.5 (they are moving towards > using an external > longnums package), and I know they recently were working quite a bit > with GMP people > to get in the right patches. > > I wish GAP worked with MPIR, but the latter does not provide all the > GMP calls used by GAP. > It would be good if these were added... > > Dima > >> >> >> The old spkg had a lot of patches. So far, the new applies none of >> them - on openSuse, the unpatched code passes tests. However, I'd be >> glad if the patch authors could check whether the fixes (some of them >> addressing platform specific issues) all made it upstream. >> >> According to the old spkg's SPKG.txt, it is needed to upgrade the >> optional polymake spkg if gmp is upgraded. I haven't tried it. >> >> Best regards, >> Simon > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-de...@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mpir-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en.
