Dynamically linking against GMP and MPFR

[Tim Prince]

ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2007, Tim Prince wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The above isn't enough description to take any action.  It would help if
> you filed a PR with the specific things your did and the symptoms you were
> experiencing so we can determine if there's a bug or where in the process
> things could be clarified through better documentation.  Would you please
> do that?
> 

Just problems to be expected, like never being sure that the new version 
will be linked when the old version is still available as a shared 
library.  Certainly nothing which rates as a bug, but enough to want to 
replace all obsolete versions, not only the static libraries.