Re: gmp version 4.1 builds 3.3?

[Phil Howard]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 07:54:27AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:

| address@hidden (Phil Howard) writes:
| >
| > When I build gmp-4.1 from source, I get a library version 3.3.0
| > instead.  I something goofed up?
| 
| The soname is still libgmp.so.3, since gmp 4 is upwardly binary
| compatible with gmp 3.

That's going to lead to a lot of confusion.  It already has.  How are
people going to know which version to download?  Can you guarantee
that the source version and the binary version won't ever collide?
Why not put a version-to-version map on the web site?

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