[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR-2.7.0-alpha1, testing needed

2014-04-06 Thread Bill Hart
We are now up to alpha4. New changes should only affect Mac. Thanks Leif! http://mpir.org/mpir-2.7.0-alpha4.tar.bz2 http://mpir.org/mpir-2.7.0-alpha4.tar.lz http://mpir.org/mpir-2.7.0-alpha4.zip Bill. On 6 April 2014 18:53, leif wrote: > Bill Hart wrote: > >> Can you tell me what the changes

[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR-2.7.0-alpha1, testing needed

2014-04-06 Thread leif
Bill Hart wrote: Can you tell me what the changes are so I can merge them? diff -Naur mpir-2.7.0-alpha3/configure mpir-2.7.0-alpha3-patched/configure --- mpir-2.7.0-alpha3/configure +++ mpir-2.7.0-alpha3-patched/configure @@ -25408,7 +25408,7 @@ # Defined in mpn/x86_64/x86_64-de

[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR-2.7.0-alpha1, testing needed

2014-04-06 Thread Bill Hart
Can you tell me what the changes are so I can merge them? Bill. On 6 April 2014 18:03, leif wrote: > leif wrote: > >> Ok, here's minimalist's quick'n'dirty temporary solution; >> minimally-invasive in that it touches only one file and affects only >> Darwin x86_64 :-) : >> >> --- mpir-2.7.0-al

[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR-2.7.0-alpha1, testing needed

2014-04-06 Thread leif
leif wrote: Ok, here's minimalist's quick'n'dirty temporary solution; minimally-invasive in that it touches only one file and affects only Darwin x86_64 :-) : --- mpir-2.7.0-alpha2/configure.ac +++ mpir-2.7.0-alpha2/configure.ac @@ -2843,15 +2843,18 @@ ;; 64) + GM

[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR-2.7.0-alpha1, testing needed

2014-04-05 Thread leif
leif wrote: leif wrote: Bill Hart wrote: I don't know how to fix that. The line in question is: .section .data.rel.ro.local,"aw",@progbits Ahem, that's an *ELF* section name (along with its attributes)... It is complaining that .data.rel.ro.local is too long. Yeah, we're on Da

[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR-2.7.0-alpha1, testing needed

2014-04-05 Thread leif
leif wrote: Bill Hart wrote: I don't know how to fix that. The line in question is: .section .data.rel.ro.local,"aw",@progbits Ahem, that's an *ELF* section name (along with its attributes)... It is complaining that .data.rel.ro.local is too long. Yeah, we're on Darwin, and Mac

[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR-2.7.0-alpha1, testing needed

2014-04-05 Thread leif
Bill Hart wrote: I don't know how to fix that. The line in question is: .section .data.rel.ro.local,"aw",@progbits Ahem, that's an *ELF* section name (along with its attributes)... It is complaining that .data.rel.ro.local is too long. Yeah, we're on Darwin, and Mach-O section n

[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR-2.7.0-alpha1, testing needed

2014-04-05 Thread Bill Hart
I don't know how to fix that. The line in question is: .section .data.rel.ro.local,"aw",@progbits It is complaining that .data.rel.ro.local is too long. Unfortunately .data.rel.ro.local is part of the assembler/linker syntax to prevent certain kinds of memory corruption. It seems when t

[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR-2.7.0-alpha1, testing needed

2014-04-05 Thread leif
On 05.04.2014 02:55, Bill Hart wrote: Hi all, I have put tarballs up on our website (http://mpir.org) for MPIR-2.7.0-alpha1. As this release contains rather a lot of new code and speedups, we'd like to have it tested as widely as possible. We welcome build/test reports (positive and negative)