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Re: [configury patch] don't add 'mpfr' to --with-mpfr-dir

From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
To: Rainer Orth <ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de>
Cc: Tobias dot Schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de,gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org,GCC Fortran mailing list <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:05:28 +0100
Subject: Re: [configury patch] don't add 'mpfr' to --with-mpfr-dir
References: <42A1DFC9.7060100@physik.uni-muenchen.de> <1118069655.42a463971db3c@www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de> <17060.25952.285271.113121@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>

> > Also, the way --with-mpfr-dir worked made it impossible to use a
> > standalone mpfr that wasn't installed, effectively rendering that option
> > useless.
>
> Useless at least for that case, agreed.  I'm not sure which variant (gmp
> --with-mpfr or gmp with standalone mpfr) is more common nowadays, but both
> should work of course.

I believe gmp --with-mpfr is unmaintained and officially obsolete/deprecated. 
We probably need to update out documentation to reflect thie.

Paul

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