MPFR in MacPorts

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Thu Jun 10 07:09:18 PDT 2010


We can easily make an mpfr3 port, which would result in the same functionality.

Naively, since the libraries have different versions in their names they ought not conflict.
mpfr.0.dylib
mpfr.1.dylib

On Jun 10, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:

> This is one of the major defects in the current MacPorts implementation
> IMHO. There really ought to be a way to have co-existing mpfr-shlibs
> packages for 2.x and 3.x but conflicting mpfr packages for building
> programs against. We have exactly the same issue with molmol in
> MacPorts. It is incompatible with the current openmotif 2.3.x releases and
> needs co-existing openmotif-shlibs packages for 2.2.x and 2.3.x so
> that molmol can be built and run against openmotif 2.2.x.

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