Re: release candidate 3 available--Solaris 5.9 issue

[John Darrington]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 05:13:57PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     "Marshall DeBerry" <address@hidden> writes:
     
     > A bit of an update--doing a ABI=32 on the libgmp build builds a 32 bit 
set
     > of libraries, so that this message is now taken care of.  
     
     So is the issue really a matter of making sure that gmp is built
     properly then?

... which according to the libgmp home page http://www.swox.com/gmp/ can 
often be a nightmare.

We only use one function from that library, namely a routine to convert
a number to base 30.   It occured to me that this is a reasonably
straightforward algorithm. So could we not implement our own, and then 
drop the dependence on libgmp ?

Or am I being naive?

J'


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