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Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2003 14:13:21 +0200
From:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
Reply-To:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To:	"Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam AT online DOT no>
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Subject:	Re: Perl, the GMP library, and the Math::BigInt::GMP module
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Peter schrieb:

> "Gerrit @ cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:

>> This ia a problem with MakeMaker.  It just looks for .a
>> libraries and doesn't see the .dll.a import library, I thought
>> it was fixed, which version of perl are you using?

> I am using Perl 5.8.0-5, with MakeMaker version 6.17.

I'll see if I can find the fix again and then will ask the maintainer
why it is still failing.

>> As a workaround try creating a symlink libgmp.dll.a libgmp.a or
>> create an empty libgmp.a in /usr/lib.

> I made the symlink

>    /usr/lib/libgmp.a -> /usr/lib/libgmp.dll.a

> and it now builds, but with many errors:

I wrote the maintainer about it, cannot say what the problem is.

Gerrit
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