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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On 8/19/17 11:41 AM, Remko van der Vossen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 03:50:25PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> Some further changes have been made to gmp and noted in
>> https://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16031 , I was now successful
>> in updating a fairly minimal stable-0.62-10 to test-0.63 (2017-08-15),
>> at least for major apps. The udev -> eudev migration and libtirpc are
>> still giving me issues.
> Shame, I was hoping to not introduce any further symlink hacks in the
> grimoire instead of proper library preservation which I am working on.
> The problem with the symlinks is that it removes the chance for library
> preservation to preserve the actual library, which may be needed for any
> dependers that actually use any symbols that have changed from the old
> version to the new.

I would have preferred no symlinks as well, but everyone who responded
they've been past this upgrade did a manual symlink to fix it. The code
I submitted will clean out the symlink on a subsequent cast of gmp, so
it's temporary.

-sandalle

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