Re: Recommended version

[Waldek Hebisch]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 09:01:46AM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  And thank you for your work on fricas!
> 
> I do intend shortly to remedy the staleness of the official release
> tarballs.  I would be interested in bug reports against 2.6.12 if you
> have time.

I should also note that I did my main testing on Debian 8, where
gcl-2.6.12 builds and I am able to build FriCAS using it.

On Debian 10 trying to build gcl-2.6.12 fails with linker errors
about undefined references, like:

/usr/bin/ld: ./libpre_gcl.a(main.o): in function `minimize_image':
main.c:(.text+0x9b4): undefined reference to `set_tm_maxpage'
/usr/bin/ld: main.c:(.text+0xbdb): undefined reference to `mbrk'
...
/usr/bin/ld: ./libpre_gcl.a(num_sfun.o): in function `Lexpt':
num_sfun.c:(.text+0x2af1): undefined reference to `number_big_iexpt'
/usr/bin/ld: num_sfun.c:(.text+0x2c8e): undefined reference to 
`number_big_iexpt'
/usr/bin/ld: num_sfun.c:(.text+0x3112): undefined reference to 
`number_fix_iexpt'

There are also a lot of errors due to multiple definitions, like:
/usr/bin/ld: ./libgclp.a(user_match.o): in function `fixnum_dpf':
user_match.c:(.text+0x2ff0): multiple definition of `fixnum_dpf'; ./libpre_gcl.a
(cmpaux.o):cmpaux.c:(.text+0x32a0): first defined here

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                              Waldek Hebisch