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Re: [ITA] gmp (libgmp-devel / libgmp3 / libgmpxx4)


On 05/04/2013 18:07, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 04/04/2013 10:13, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:57:09 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>   And the reroll failed to build because of the problem JonY ran into with
>>> java.  Turns out that libjava keys off the presence of pthread_getattr_np
>>> (added to the DLL a few versions ago) to decide whether to invoke a couple of
>>> boehm-gc functions that only existed in pthread versions, so weren't
>>> implemented for win32 threads as used by the Cygwin port.  I've added a patch
>>> that implements them and am starting again.
>> As mentioned previously, I already fixed that in Ports:
>>
>> http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/gcc
>>
>> PLEASE use this as the basis for your packages; there are a number of
>> important fixes in that patchset.
> 
>   Well, I was just going to do a quick update to 4.7.1-1, still as a test:
> version, in order to a) fix the dependencies and b) get exported TLS vars
> working, and then integrate all your extra patches before doing the first full
> curr: release.  Is that not a good idea?  b) in particular was important for
> getting new versions of mpfr to work without having to disable thread support.

  Also, c) I have a fixed libffi package to go with it, which would resolve
the problems mentioned by Angelo G. in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-04/threads.html#00081

  I really think it's worth uploading as a stop-gap.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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