On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 08:00:41PM +0200, J??r??mie Courr??ges-Anglas wrote:
> Kenneth R Westerback <kwesterb...@rogers.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 04:16:31PM -0700, Josh Elsasser wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:29:40AM +0200, J?r?mie Courr?ges-Anglas wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > So instead of struggling with clisp, let's just update sbcl first.
> >> > Regress tests results and diff below.  I'm postponing clisp for now.
> >> > 
> >> > More tests on amd64 / ok?
> >> 
> >> There should be a build-time (and probably runtime) dependency on gmp,
> >> or else the gmp contrib should be disabled. I'm not sure if it's right
> >> to enforce a runtime dependency when few users will use sb-gmp, but it
> >> would also be annoying to start splitting off contribs into separate
> >> packages.
> 
> gmp is opened using load-shared-object (dlopen), the build system
> doesn't search for it (but we should keep in mind that one day it
> might use sb-grovel to detect the size and signedness of gmp objects).
> Given this, plus the fact that it is a relatively new and probably
> seldom used module, I don't think adding gmp to bdeps/rdeps would add
> much value.
> 
> What I should have done, though, is to put gmp in TEST_DEPENDS.
> 
> Josh, do you agree with this?
> 
> > I don't use gmp
> 
> Are you sure? :)

OK, I should have said "I'd don't consciously use gmp." :-).

.... Ken

> 
> > (or even know what it is) so I don't have a strong
> > preference one way or the other on disabling it. I agree starting
> > to split off contribs is a longer term idea even if deemed desirable.
> >
> > So I would go for whatever is minimal change to make 1.1.12 work.
> > And leave anything else for future work in-tree.
> >
> > .... Ken
> 
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