From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 16 19:48:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D5437B401 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 19:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a186.otenet.gr [212.205.215.186]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5H2mmp17443 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 05:48:48 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5H2mnJ15078 for current@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 05:48:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 05:48:48 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: current@freebsd.org Subject: convert libgmp to a port? Message-ID: <20010617054848.A15042@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was looking at PR/9233 from Dec 1998 the other day, and I saw that the version of libgmp thats included in the base-system seems to be very outdated (version 2.x in our tree, while version 3.x is available at the homepage of libgmp). After discussing this with markm@freebsd.org about it through mail, I started looking through the sources to see where libgmp is used. It may be a false impression of mine, but in the -STABLE sources that I checked, I didn't seem to find anyone in the base-system `using' libgmp. I tried grepping through the entire /usr/src to find one place except for contrib/libgmp that seems to be using functions from libgmp (I was looking for functions that matched "\