Hello Vincent, I've read your email a few times and I'm having a hard time understanding why you believe a bug exists.
The preprocessor symbols at issue are preceeded by the following comment: /* Define CC and CFLAGS which were used to build this version of GMP */ ... and they do exactly that. If you have no need for this information, I would suggest you are free to ignore it. If you feel it is harmful, you can always advocate for upstream to remove them. On September 10, 2012 09:12:24 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The reason for asking the removal of such lines is that more than > being useless, these lines may contain incorrect information when > GMP has been built on some machine and gmp.h is distributed on > other machines, which have a different environment. I don't follow. The symbols are defined at the time of build and are exactly the flags used to build the version of GMP distributed. Short of a bug in the build script, they cannot be incorrect. > If you think that keeping these lines is better under the Debian > context, then it would be a good idea to add a > > /usr/share/doc/libgmp-dev/README.Debian > > file explaining why (so that the user doesn't think that something > may be wrong in the Debian package). I think it is unlikely that anyone will be confused by this. This is the first complaint I've heard in my 9 1/2 years of maintaining gmp. Regards, -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
