Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Yes, exactly: “everything” depends on GCC, and GCC depends on GMP, MPFR, > and MPC. Thus, upgrading one of these leads to a rebuild of everything. > > The way to address it (as is done in Nixpkgs) is to have a staging > branch for such changes, and to merge it once in a while. So now is the > time to inaugurate a new branch. :-)
Okay. There will soon be a new release of gmp (5.1), this would be a good time for a merge back. > Would it be an option for you to send a ‘git format-patch’ kind of > patch? Why not, see attached. Andreas
From ed954467bef2fbd381ccaf1bd196afd835de7282 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Enge <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:03:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] distro/packages/multiprecision.scm: updated for mpc-1.0.1 --- distro/packages/multiprecision.scm | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/distro/packages/multiprecision.scm b/distro/packages/multiprecision.scm index 9cfde88..73bceb3 100644 --- a/distro/packages/multiprecision.scm +++ b/distro/packages/multiprecision.scm @@ -95,14 +95,13 @@ double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit mantissa).") (define-public mpc (package (name "mpc") - (version "1.0") + (version "1.0.1") (source (origin (method url-fetch) (uri (string-append - "http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc/download/mpc-"; - version ".tar.gz")) + "mirror://gnu/mpc/mpc-" version ".tar.gz")) (sha256 (base32 - "00rxjmkpqnv6zzcyw9aa5w6rzaav32ys87km25zgfcv9i32km5cw")))) + "1zq0fidp1jii2j5k5n9hmx55a6wwid33gjzhimvxq9d5zrf82npd")))) (build-system gnu-build-system) (inputs `(("gmp" ,gmp) ("mpfr" ,mpfr))) @@ -110,7 +109,11 @@ double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit mantissa).") with exact rounding") (description "GNU MPC is a C library for the arithmetic of complex numbers with -arbitrarily high precision and correct rounding of the result. It is built -upon and follows the same principles as GNU MPFR.") +arbitrarily high precision and correct rounding of the result. It extends +the principles of the IEEE-754 standard for fixed precision real floating +point numbers to complex numbers, providing well-defined semantics for +every operation. At the same time, speed of operation at high precision +is a major design goal. The library is built upon and follows the same +principles as GNU MPFR.") (license "LGPLv3+") (home-page "http://mpc.multiprecision.org/";))) -- 1.7.10.4
