Stephen Gran schrieb: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:15:14PM +0100, Tomasz Kojm said: >> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:47:48 +0100 >> Reini Urban <rur...@x-ray.at> wrote: >> >>> Stephen Gran schrieb: >>>> If you guys don't have the copyright, or can't grant the excemption for >>>> other reasons, distributors like myself will most likely have to build >>>> without gmp going forward, which seem unfortunate. >>> Well, we could link against gmp-4.2.1 which has still the old license. >>> For cygwin we would have to create a gmp-compat package based on gmp-4.2.1 > > Distributors like Debian and Redhat generally don't keep old versions of > libraries laying around, so it's not all that great a solution.
Cygwin neither. So I'm happy with LibTomMath. I wonder if you can hold against the GPL3 any longer :) >> The problem has been fixed in SVN - we're now using LibTomMath (bundled with >> ClamAV) instead of libgmp. > > Can we make it a configure option to use the system version of the > library instead? (Debian currently ships 0.39, which appears to have been > around a while and should be reasonably close to whatever version you're > going to pick) I vastly prefer that in the general case; all the usual > arguments about security support and memory footprint and etc. apply - > I'll take it as read that we all know them :) > > If you're not interested in that work, or it seems difficult and you > have better things to do, let me know and I'll have a look. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
