Hi, as of gmp-4.2 the default is for the Berkley MP compatability library not to be installed, however there are still packages in portage that require it (such as nis-utils, which fails to compile unless mp.h is present). This can be easily fixed in the short term by altering the line in the gmp-4.2.ebuild that says --disable-mpbsd to --enable-mpbsd. In the longer term it will require packages such as nis-utils to be fixed up, presumably to work directly with gmp. If there's any further information or help I can provide, please let me know. Thanks...
then why dont we embark on the long term fix now adding back in the compat library will just allow people to continue ignoring the old packages
(In reply to comment #1) > then why dont we embark on the long term fix now > > adding back in the compat library will just allow people to continue ignoring > the old packages > but I <3 nis-utils :/
Created attachment 94891 [details, diff] uses non BSD API Please test this, I have it installed locally and most of the stuff works ;)
gave the patch a quick look over and it looks sane to me ... but really it's up to the nis maintainer to make the final decision ;)
Can we just make this work again? It's really embarrassing that nis-utils has been broken for a year. Particularly because flameeyes' BSD porting broke it in the first place, prior to that it worked just fine. http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/gmp/gmp-4.1.4-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1&view=markup added an explicit --disable-mpbsd instead of the previous explicit --enable-mpbsd. The easy and correct fix was (and still is) just having ` $(use_enable !userland_BSD mpbsd)`.
(In reply to comment #5) > Can we just make this work again? It's really embarrassing that nis-utils has > been broken for a year. A year? It works fine here :P > > Particularly because flameeyes' BSD porting broke it in the first place, prior > to that it worked just fine. > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/gmp/gmp-4.1.4-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1&view=markup > added an explicit --disable-mpbsd instead of the previous explicit > --enable-mpbsd. > > The easy and correct fix was (and still is) just having ` $(use_enable > !userland_BSD mpbsd)`. > Or we can do both ;) Nothing wrong with updating the code a bit :)
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > > Can we just make this work again? It's really embarrassing that nis-utils has > > been broken for a year. > > A year? It works fine here :P Not here, mp.h isn't installed. Although I was corrected on a year, apparently I don't know how to use ViewVC and flameeyes in fact isn't at fault. The change was made in the ebuild for 4.2. > > The easy and correct fix was (and still is) just having ` $(use_enable > > !userland_BSD mpbsd)`. > > > > Or we can do both ;) Nothing wrong with updatwing the code a bit :) Yes, but I don't think users should suffer with easily-fixable breakage that we caused while developers are working with upstream on a change that may not even be accepted.
-r2 is in the tree.
