Re: math::pari + pari-2.1.2

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 06:42:13PM -0400, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:11:36PM -0700, Eric Kolve wrote:
> > Just thought you should know that Math::Pari (v. 2.010103) won't compile
> > with pari-2.1.2.  I am running perl 5.6.0, x86, kernel 2.4.3.  Here is
> > the error:

> > -fPIC -Derr=pari_err -DDYNAMIC_PLOTTING -o kerntest.o
> > .././pari-2.1.2/src/test/kerntest.c
> > .././pari-2.1.2/src/test/kerntest.c:2:18: anal.h: No such file or
> > directory

It was a bug in Math::Pari: it did not exclude kerntest.c from compilation.

> I cannot reproduce this, but 2.1.2 is completely broken anyway.  My
> compilation stops on the expansion of
> 
>   #define _low(x) ({GEN __x=(GEN)x; __x[lgefint(x)-1];})
> 
> in arith1.c.  This is a gcc-ism.

I released v2.010200 which auto-patches for this particular buglet.

Ilya