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Re: build failure, GMP not available
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Geoffrey Keating wrote:
> > One more thing, I initially went down the road of including the GMP/
> > MPFR
> > sources in the gcc tree and building them as part of the bootstrap
> > process. But the consensus was not to do that:
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-10/msg00167.html
>
> I think the problem is that Mark also said
>
> > I do think we should do is provide a known-good version (whether
> > via a tag in some version control system, or via a tarball) of
> > these libraries so that people can easily get versions that work.
>
> and this is the part that didn't work; it's not good enough to think
> that a good version might exist, you need to know what it actually
> is, because knowing what it is might change your opinion on whether
> it's good...
Well, the correct versions were documented in
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html
Copies of the correct sources were put in:
ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/
Where it broke down for you seems to be in the installation instructions
that accompany the tarballs. But I don't have any control over those, the
GMP/MPFR maintainers do.
Do we have a GCC FAQ somewhere? Maybe we can add GMP/MPFR build problems
and solutions there. You can add your experiences to that collection.
I'm sorry you've had trouble, hopefully all this is a one-time thing that
doesn't cause too much grief for everyone. Then we can all get back to
making GCC better. :-)
--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu