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Re: build failure, GMP not available
- From: "Kaveh R. GHAZI" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- To: Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at apple dot com>
- Cc: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, gcc-regression at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:12:52 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: build failure, GMP not available
- References: <76B13B3C-DB38-4D40-9DEE-B1ADC71379FC@apple.com>
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Geoffrey Keating wrote:
> 5. Are you aware that the GMP home page says
>
> Note that we chose not to work around all new GCC bugs in this
> release. Never forget to do make check after building the library
> to make likely it was not miscompiled!
>
> and therefore this library needs to be part of the bootstrap, not
> built separately?
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
--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu