Re: GMP test

[Eric Christopher <echristo at apple dot com>]

On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> > > if test -d ${srcdir}/gcc && test x$have_gmp != xyes; then
> > >     ...
> > > fi
> > >
> > > but I think that the whole test now belongs in the GCC  
> > > subdirectory, not in the toplevel (it was anyway a hack for the  
> > > sake of disabling Fortran).
> > Moving it is not really a good thing anyways as you are able to  
> > configure
> > and then do a "make -j3" and it is hard to figure out why the build  
> > fail
> > because you don't have the correct version of GMP/MPRF.
>
> Maintainability first.  If something fails with parallel make, and  
> is reproducible with plain "make" (i.e. doesn't screw up the build  
> directory), I don't see a reason not to move it.  You'd do "make"  
> anyway to check if a dependency is missing, wouldn't you?

Really, all I care about is having it depend on the languages enabled.  
It's driving me crazy at the moment on a non-fortran build.

-eric