[Patches] Patch to src/Modules/mpzmodule.c

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Peter Funk writes:
>This patch allows building the Python 'mpzmodule' under SuSE Linux
>without having to install the source package of the GMP-libary.
>The gmp-mparam.h seems to be an internal header file.  The patch 
>shouldn't hurt any other platforms.
>+ #if defined __GLIBC__ && __GLIBC__ >= 2 /*aid building on Linux distributions*/
>+ #define BITS_PER_MP_LIMB mp_bits_per_limb
>+ #else
>  #include "gmp-mparam.h"
>+ #endif

This seems like the wrong fix, tying GMP to the version of glibc!
(They haven't rolled GMP into glibc, have they?)  If GMP 2.0 exposes
an mp_bits_per_limb constant, then the correct patch may just be
changing BITS_PER_MP_LIMB to mp_bits_per_limb, inside an #ifdef GMP2
if necessary.

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