[63519] trunk/dports/devel/gmp/Portfile

[Marcus Calhoun-Lopez]

At the web page http://gmplib.org/gmp5.0.html, the developers of GMP claim:
"GMP 5.0 is upwardly source and binary compatible with 4.x, and 3.x versions"

Is this the bug you were referring to?

-Marcus

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Vincent Lefevre
<vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2010-02-06 18:27:12 -0800, mcalhoun at macports.org wrote:
> > Revision: 63519
> >           http://trac.macports.org/changeset/63519
> > Author:   mcalhoun at macports.org
> > Date:     2010-02-06 18:27:10 -0800 (Sat, 06 Feb 2010)
> > Log Message:
> > -----------
> > gmp: Update version 4.3.2 --> 5.0.1.
> [...]
> > @@ -54,13 +54,18 @@
> >  test.cmd        make
> >  test.target     check
> >
> > +post-destroot {
> > +    # For the upgrade 4.3.2 -> 5.0.1, do not force all packages which depend on GMP to be rebuilt.
> > +    ln -s libgmp.dylib ${destroot}${prefix}/lib/libgmp.3.dylib
> > +}
>
> I don't understand. The old GMP library will be removed by the
> upgrade and GMP 5 is *not* binary compatible[*] with GMP 4. So
> all the packages which depend on GMP must be rebuilt by this
> upgrade.
>
> Also note that GMP 5.0.1 is not regarded as stable as GMP 4.3.2.
>
> [*] GMP 5.0.0 was declared to be binary compatible, but this was
> a bug, which has been fixed in GMP 5.0.1.
>
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