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Re: Including GMP/MPFR in GCC repository?
- From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Kaveh R. GHAZI" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, kargl at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 04:35:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: Including GMP/MPFR in GCC repository?
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0610062205240.2597@caipclassic.rutgers.edu>
On Saturday 07 October 2006 03:09, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote:
> Has there been any thought to including GMP/MPFR in the GCC repository
> like we do for zlib and intl?
>
> Doing so would guarantee users could build fortran and also help me
> with PR middle-end/29335 (an enhancement).
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29335
>
> Paul - you were going to look into this three years ago... I'm not
> holding you to anything from than :-) but were you able to come to any
> conclusions and/or did you discover something that prevented you from
> proceeding as discussed here?
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-09/msg00920.html
I believe at least a couple of people have tried and failed to get gpm+mpfr to
build reliably inside the gcc build system. IIRC the problems were related
to gmp autodetecting build machine capabilities, which breaks canadian
crosses, and building redistributable toolchains. I never tried the
integrations myself, and don't know the exact details.
Paul