Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:57:59 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/eBones/usr.sbin/kerberos kerberos.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950918105644.18055F-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: <199509180229.TAA21171@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Bill Paul wrote: > > > > > > I'll gladly tar up the whole thing and give it to you, but nobody's > > > > > > answered my questions yet: > > > > > > > > > > > > - Do we really want to import the GNU mp library? > > > > > > > > > > How big is that? > > > > > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 108358 Jul 21 00:17 /usr/src/gmp-1.3.2.tar.gz > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root sysman 261188 Jul 21 00:24 /usr/src/gmp-1.3.2/libgmp.a > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root sysman 110280 Jul 21 00:25 /usr/src/gmp-1.3.2/libmp.a > > > > > > > > The libmp.a library is the part we need: it's a clone of the 'Berkeley' > > > > libmp library. The libgmp.a library contains many other interesting > > > > things, none of which are strictly necessary for Secure RPC. Still, if we're > > > > going to do one, we may as wlel do both, since they're both GPL'ed. > > > > > > We want to import that (from /usr/src/lib/Makefile): > > > # XXX MISSING: libmp libplot > > > > > > The copy in BSD 4.4 has AT & T copyrights in it... if gnu has reimplemented > > > this library we want it ASAP in src/gnu/lib/libmp. > > Well, it wouldn't take too much work to import it. The code compiles without > any errors using just a simple 'make.' The Makefile needs to be be bmake-ed > though. > > The documentation in gmp-1.3.2 talks about a gmp-2.0, but it doesn't seem > to exist. Could have been just wishful thinking on the author's part. > > I'd rather have someone else do the import since I'm a little fuzzy on > the exact procedure, but if no one else has time I suppose I could > handle it. BTW: I've just found "fgmp", which is a "free" replacement for libgmp. ie: no GPV. (I've not seen if it has other restrictions though, as the ftp is going slowly..) -Peter > -Bill >
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