[RFU] gmp-4.2.4-2 for cygwin 1.7

[Charles Wilson]

Dave Korn wrote:

>   Rather than alternatives,

#1, you can't use alternatives to deal with DLLs. The Windows Runtime
Loader does not grok symlinks.

> I think what everyone else is planning to do is
> bump their ABI versions, i.e. you'd leave libgmpxx3 as an obsolete package and
> introduce a libgmpxx4, and they'd co-exist; that and all subsequent versions
> would be built with gcc-4, and maintainers adjust their requires: lines when
> they start using -4 to build their dependent packages.

No, actually I think the question was resolved, in general, in favor of
We're Just Mean:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-04/msg00034.html

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Chuck