On Saturday 05 September 2009 16:30:38 Bill Hart wrote:
> I'm happy to bump our compatibility number if that is that is required.
> However we should be meticulous about ensuring we are compatible with GMP
> 4.3.1. In particular we need to ensure we normalise our extended gcd
> precisely the same way as them. We should also go through the documentation
> and ensure every single function has exactly the same prototype and
> definition.
> We really need to verify carefully though that this is the problem John is
> encountering.

A quick look and it appears we are compatible with 4.3.1 , but not 4.4 
mpz_inits(....,0) is one function we are missing, can Windows do this sort of 
function ?
Have we verified that changing the version number does fix the gcc problem?

> The original intention was to never change the GMP version 
> fro 4.2.1 because that is the version of GMP which we forked.

I would of thought the reason for version numbers is to see wether the lib is 
compatible with version x.y.z , not which version we forked from , as who 
would care about that?

>
> Bill.
>
> 2009/9/5 Jason Moxham <[email protected]>
>
> > On Saturday 05 September 2009 13:05:19 John Cremona wrote:
> > > 2009/9/5 Minh Nguyen <[email protected]>:
> > > > Hi John,
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:31 AM, John Cremona<[email protected]>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > <SNIP>
> > > >
> > > >> Now, (1) the installed version of gmp is 4.2.1:
> > > >> j...@selmer%grep GMP_VERSION /usr/include/gmp.h
> > > >> #define GMP_VERSION "4.2.1"
> > > >
> > > > One way (at least for me) to debug this problem is to compile Sage
> > > > 4.1.1 and 4.1.2.alpha0 on the same machine without GMP installed
> > > > system-wide. The system-wide installation of GMP might be done
> > > > through, say, a Linux distribution's package manager. After that,
> > > > remove the system-wide GMP and proceed with compiling the above two
> > > > versions of Sage. I'll try this approach on the Ubuntu 9.04 machine
> > > > in my office, and report the results later.
> > >
> > > I'll have a go, though this would involve disabling/hiding the system
> > > gmp, and doesn't gcc use that?  This machine is owned by me & Bill
> > > Hart (so I would have to ask him before doing that).
> > >
> > > Here's what happened, in order:
> > > 1. Machine installed late July, with ubuntu and gcc-4.3.3.
> > > 2. Sage 4.1.1 builds fine with that.
> > > 3. Bill finds that 4.3.3 is broken, in that it compilies his correct
> > > source code into something which does not run properly (for details,
> > > ask Bill).
> > > 4. Bill obtains source for gcc-4.4.1, but finds it does not build
> > > owing to gmp not being recent enough.
> > > 5. John installs latest gmp.
> > > 6. Bill successfully builds gcc-4.4.1, which is now the machine's
> >
> > default.
> >
> > > 7. John fails to build sage-4.1.2.alpha0.
> > >
> > > At some point I also installed mpir on this machine.  So now we have
> > > the following confusing situation:
> > >
> > > /usr/include/gmp.h is actually mpir 1.2.2 (aliasing gmp 4.2.1)
> > > /usr/local/include/gmp.h is gmp 4.3.1
> >
> > So does the installation of GCC-4.4 require a GMP >4.3 ? , if so then to
> > get
> > it to use MPIR all we need to do is bump our gmp compatibility version
> > numbers from 4.2.1 to 4.3.1 , assuming we have implemented any new
> > documented
> > features.
> >
> > > I don't know where the original system gmp is (or even if there was
> > > one) since the only other files o nthe system called gmp.h are in
> > > sage-*/local directories.  And of course there are various versions of
> > > the library in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib.
> > >
> > > John
>
> 


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