GMP and MPFR (Was: GCC does not build gfortran !!)

[Brian Dessent]

Martin Krischik wrote:

> And another thing just struck me: We from the Ada community use cross
> compilers for embedded targets a lot. Targets which might not even have an
> operating system. How is this supposed to work in future?
> 
> Or not quite a drastic: Cross compiling on Windows for VMS. Do GMP and MPFR
> cross compile for VMS. Do they compile for VMS at all. Or for Symbian to name
> a new and hip OS for contrast.

They're host libraries, not target libraries.  They don't have to build
for the target system.  They are used by gcc itself, not by code that
gcc creates.

Brian