RFA/RFC: Adding support for gmp and mpfr sources in the build tree

[Mark Mitchell]

Nick Clifton wrote:

>   Would anyone care to comment on, or possibly even approve the
>   attached patch ?  It adds support for the sources for the GMP and
>   MPFR libraries being present at the top level in the source tree.

Unless/until the top-level configury does a "staged install", we'll be
depending on the build directory structure of these libraries.  We don't
control that, and we know they change from time to time.  So, it sounds
like we'll be right back to the switches we've just agreed to remove
(e.g., --with-gmp-dir).  So, I think this is a bad idea.

> + # start-sanitize-redhat	

Of course, those markers should be removed, if the patch goes in.

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