***[Possible UCE]*** Dynamically linking against GMP and MPFR

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Tim Prince <n8tm@aol.com> writes:

> iant@google.com wrote:
> > If you
> > carefully install the appropriate versions of GMP and MPFR on one
> > machine in the normal way, and build gcc on that machine,
> > cc1/cc1plus/etc. wind up dynamically linked against libgmp.so and
> > libmpfr.so.  If you then copy the compiler to some other system, or
> > simply run it from another system via NFS, and you have not carefully
> > installed the appropriate versions of GMP and MPFR on that other
> > system, the compiler will fail to start, getting an error from the
> > dynamic linker.
> 
> I simply dump the required .so into the lib64 directory of my new gcc
> installation, and tar up the whole thing. I can untar into my own
> directory on systems where I have no root access. No doubt others do
> the same.

I know that there are many ways to handle this but the point is that
it should work easily and conveniently without extra work.

Ian