FreeBSD and Pari

[Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

I have received the following report. Any comments ?

( the workaround is still there in unstable 2-2-7. I have asked for details
about the compilation "crash" )

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I just compiled Pari on FreeBSD. There's a workaround for FreeBSD               
(version 2.2.5) in the source file pari-2.1.5/src/gp/highlvl.c. But with        
recent version of FreeBSD (>=4.x), this workaround is I think not needed
any more and crashes the compilation.                                           
                                                                                
I'm not sure the problem is in Pari, because I compiled it through perl         
module Math::Pari. Maybe the problem is in Math::Pari.                          
                                                                                
 /* dlopen(NULL) returns a handle to the running process.                       
  * Bug report Y. Uchikawa: does not work for gp-dyn on FreeBSD 2.2.5           
  */                                                                            
#ifdef __FreeBSD__                                                              
  if (! *lib) lib = DL_DFLT_NAME;                                               
#else                                                                           
  if (! *lib) lib = NULL;                                                       
#endif                               
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Cheers,

    Karim.
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