Dynamically linking against GMP and MPFR

[Tim Prince]

ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu wrote:

> 
> However there are two existing options in the mean time:
> 
> One is build/install gmp/mpfr yourself and specify --disable-shared to
> both.  Then use --with-mpfr= to specify using them instead of the system's
> shared versions.
> 
> The second is to drop gmp/mpfr into the top level directory and let the
> bootstrap process build them.  This will automatically do --disable-shared
> and not install these libraries, IIRC.
> 
I spent quite a while getting out of the tangle I got into when I built 
mpfr and gmp with --disable-shared, leaving older incompatible shared 
libraries in the path.  No doubt, it can be made to work, but with 
plenty of ways to go wrong.