build failure, GMP not available

[Kaveh R. GHAZI]

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