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Re: Shouldn't gcc-4 depend on libmpfr4 ?
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:59:32 +0000 (UTC), Achim Gratz wrote:
> Yaakov <yselkowitz <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> > The problem is a hack in gmp's configure.ac which is incompatible with
> > newer libtool versions.
>
> Oh now you tell me... :-) I've found the same in the meantime after mucking with
> the Win32_DLL red herring (that appears to be completely superfluous as well and
> not have seen an update in ages - see the library version numbers). Anyway,
> since the last version to have libmp (BSD compatibility) is 5.0.5 and I can't
> easily tell if any other packages link against that, shouldn't Cygwin distribute
> this version until the dependencies have been sorted?
AFAIK nothing used the BSD compat layer, it was disabled by default
upstream, and Fedora has already updated to 5.1. I think we can go
ahead and do the same.
Yaakov
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