gmp port upgrade to 4.2.2?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-09-13 15:06:13 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I am on 32-bit Intel and I have gmp 4.2.1_4 installed, as a dependency of 
> gcc42. I have no idea how to test whether it's working properly. Well, I 
> could run "port test" I guess.

I think that most problems are build failure, but "port test" is
important, as many compilers miscompile GMP.

> I could try the upgrade on Intel and if it works I'll post a patch
> and someone on PowerPC can try it.

I can try on PowerPC.

> I made a ticket:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12701

OK.

>> BTW, it would be nice to have a universal 32/64 build, but I haven't
>> had the time to try yet.
>
> I don't believe we have any provisions in base for universal 32/64 builds. 
> If that would be nice, then we should do it in base, shouldn't we?

Yes, but even if it is in base, I'm not sure that this will work
without change with GMP, as GMP tries to build as 64-bit by default
(for efficiency reasons, even if this is not the default ABI).

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