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Re: Including GMP/MPFR in GCC repository?
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:19:26PM -0400, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote:
> > > Has there been any thought to including GMP/MPFR in the GCC repository
> > > like we do for zlib and intl?
> >
> > I do not think we should be including more such packages in the GCC
> > repository. It's complicated from an FSF perspective and it bloats our
> > software. GCC is a complicated piece of software, and to build it you
> > need a lot of stuff installed on your system. I think we should just
> > accept that. :-)
>
> So when I start using MPFR from the middle-end for PR 29335, it's okay to
> force everyone building GCC to get MPFR? (I.e. not just the people who
> want to build fortran.)
>
> If so, that makes my life much easier and I'm all for it. Including MPFR
> was my way to smooth things over with this new dependency. I'm happy not
> to have to do it. :-)
>
Kaveh,
It should be straight forward to modify the current configure tests
in toplevel for the versions of gmp and mpfr you need. I would
recommend at least mpfr 2.2.0 (which would allow me to kill the ugly
hacks in gfortran). For gmp, you may be able to use a version as
old as 4.1.0.
--
Steve