Build using --with-gmp and shared libraries

[Paul Brook]

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 16:28, Tobias.Schlueter@physik.uni-muenchen.de 
wrote:
> Quoting Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch>:
> > As a side note, making an in-tree mpfr possible is something easy to do,
> > that I'd endorse, and that I could help with (unlike moving libgcc to
> > the toplevel ;-).
>
> It's something that we want, together with an in-tree gmp (mpfr depends on
> gmp after all).  There were some past conversations about this, and I
> remember having been told that at least one gcc heavyweight had failed
> doing this due to some weirdness either in gmp or mpfr.  I'm cc'ing Paul
> Brook as I think that I got that information from him.

IIRC the main problem was the the gmp configure is excessively clever. It 
looks at the host machine and figures out the "best" set of compiler flags 
and inline assembly to use.  We want it to just use whatever what it's told 
to use for the host machine.

Paul