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12661	Upgrade the optional GMP package	SimonKing	tbd	"The optional gmp-4.2.1 package fails to build on my openSuse laptop,

I succeeded to fix it, in the sense that it did build. However, the tests did not pass.

Therefore I suggest to upgrade the optional gmp package to the latest upstream release.

It turns out that the ''unpatched'' upstream code installs and tests fine on my laptop. However, the old gmp spkg was massively patched, for various reasons. I don't know if all of the fixes from the old spkg went upstream.

Therefore, I hope that some experts can check on various machines and in various settings, to see whether some of the old patches are still needed.

Note that the old `SPKG.txt` remarks that the spkg-install of the optional polymake spkg needs to be updated, if gmp is upgraded. I hope that someone can do that.

'''spkg''': [http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/SimonKing/SAGE/spkgs/gmp-5.0.4.spkg]"	defect	needs_review	major	sage-5.10	packages: optional		gmp	leif		N/A		Simon King