Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:46:53 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <193-883621571.20031011124653@familiehaase.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: "Peter J. Acklam" Subject: Re: Perl, the GMP library, and the Math::BigInt::GMP module In-Reply-To: <5698466932.20031009141321@familiehaase.de> References: <3F87435C@epostleser.online.no> <5698466932.20031009141321@familiehaase.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo Peter, Am Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2003 um 14:13 schriebst du: > I'll see if I can find the fix again and then will ask the maintainer > why it is still failing. >>> As a workaround try creating a symlink libgmp.dll.a libgmp.a or >>> create an empty libgmp.a in /usr/lib. >> I made the symlink >> /usr/lib/libgmp.a -> /usr/lib/libgmp.dll.a I fixed this in Kid.pm which is part of perl's MakeMaker, will release a new perl as soon as possible. >> and it now builds, but with many errors: > I wrote the maintainer about it, cannot say what the problem is. I figured that the GMP library on Cygwin is broken. Either wait until the maintainer releases a better version or compile GMP yourself. Regards, Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/