pari-2.1.7 released

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

Dear PARI enthousiast,

  this message is to announce the release of version 2.1.7 of the PARI/GP
system. The new release can be downloaded from

 ftp://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/pari.tgz

This is a BUGFIX release for the stable version 2.1.6 and essentially
addresses Configure and compilation failures, esp. with recent versions
of the gcc compilers (gcc-3.4 and 4.0 in particular).

In short, use this release if you previously met with problems. There is no
compelling need to upgrade from 2.1.6 otherwise.

===========================================================================

I plan to release unstable version 2.2.11 later this week; the next stable
release is scheduled to be a major one, version 2.3, before the end of the
year.

Have fun,

    Karim.

PS: The Changelog

Done for version 2.1.7 (released 19/09/2005):
  Fixed
    1- recent pdftex failed to compile users.tex                  [2.2.2  F10]
    2- Configure was missing log2/exp2 on systems that had it (compilation
       fails on FreeBSD)                                          [2.2.8  F43]
    3- gcc-3.4 breaks PARI compatibility code for old readline    [2.2.10 F21]
IZ  4- [make bench]: wrong format for test 'ploth' on 64 bit machine
BA  5- [compatible=3] wrong prototype for thetanullk              [2.2.9  F13]
    6- gcc-4.0 miscompiles PARI on ix86                           [2.2.11 F39]

  Added
BA  1- Add code 'i' for functions returning C int (not long)      [2.2.7  A11]

-- 
Karim Belabas                  Tel: (+33) (0)5 40 00 26 17
Universite Bordeaux 1          Fax: (+33) (0)5 40 00 69 50
351, cours de la Liberation    http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~belabas/
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