Bug 229772 - SWI-Prolog requires GMP since version 5.6.0
Summary: SWI-Prolog requires GMP since version 5.6.0
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pl
Version: 6
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Gérard Milmeister
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-02-23 12:53 UTC by Roberto Bagnara
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-02-23 17:09:30 UTC
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Description Roberto Bagnara 2007-02-23 12:53:42 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Description of problem:
Since version 5.6.0, SWI-Prolog supports unbounded integers thanks to GMP.  While it is true that SWI-Prolog works also without GMP, in which case it only offers small integers, the result is of strictly inferior quality (all serious Prolog systems provide unbounded integers).  The solution is to make sure that `pl' BuildRequires `gmp-devel': the SWI-Prolog configuration script will detect it and the right thing will happen.

While we are at it, we may want to upgrade to version 5.6.28.

I can submit a patch, if you want.

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How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. pl


Actual Results:
?- current_prolog_flag(bounded, X).

X = true 

Yes


Expected Results:
?- current_prolog_flag(bounded, X).

X = false 

Yes


Additional info:

Comment 1 Gérard Milmeister 2007-02-23 17:09:30 UTC
Thanks for the notification.
The next build will also update to the newest version.


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