Re: Including GMP/MPFR in GCC repository?

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

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.)

It is my opinion (as a GCC developer, not as a representative of the 
FSF/SC) that, yes, that is fine.  I think most other people that 
responded agreed.  (I do think that we should make sure that MPFR works 
on all of the popular host platforms, of course.)

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