#12173: Update FLINT to 2.3
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       Reporter:  mhansen                                            |         
Owner:  tbd         
           Type:  enhancement                                        |        
Status:  needs_review
       Priority:  major                                              |     
Milestone:  sage-5.9    
      Component:  packages                                           |    
Resolution:              
       Keywords:  flint spkg                                         |   Work 
issues:              
Report Upstream:  N/A                                                |     
Reviewers:  John Cremona
        Authors:  Mike Hansen, Fredrik Johansson, Jean-Pierre Flori  |     
Merged in:              
   Dependencies:  #12433                                             |      
Stopgaps:              
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Comment (by leif):

 Replying to [comment:227 jpflori]:
 > Replying to [comment:225 leif]:
 > > Replying to [comment:224 jpflori]:
 > > > Do you suggest we keep the "#define ulong unsigned long"?
 > > > I don't really care.

 `for f in $SOURCES; do sed -i 's/ulong/mp_limb_t/g' $f; done` ;-)

 [[BR]]

 > > I think we should [better?] coordinate that with upstream (probably
 including changes to the weird `configure` and `Makefile.in`, too --
 haven't looked at FLINT's current state recently at all).
 > You can just propose whatever changes you want to include here, I'm in
 close contact with upstream, especially for the build system, so I'll take
 care of coordination.
 > I agree there is some fishy things going on with FLINT_TUNE and CFLAGS
 and surely other things.
 >
 > And don't say "let's switch to autotools" unless you wanna be in charge
 of the build system maintenance as Bill Hart will definitely not want to
 maintain it.

 :-)  Yes.  I just meant I don't know if there are any changes in progress
 w.r.t. this.

 It doesn't seem we'd need any ''Sage-specific'' changes, so IMHO we should
 take fixes from upstream, or push (generic) changes there.


 > Be also aware there won't be any FLINT release before at least the dev
 meeting in may.

 Yes.  But FLINT 2.3.1 should (already) include any fixes we (and others)
 need, see above.

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