On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > It is almost always caused by installing libgmp.so etc. in a > non-standard location and not using ldconfig, DT_RUNPATH, > $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or some other method to tell the dynamic linker how > to find them. The current installation docs mention --with-gmp right
And for the normal case where $build and $host are the same (i.e. not a Canadian cross) it should be possible to build and try running a program using those libraries, maybe even one that checks the version is the same as in the library headers, at an early point in configure, so giving a meaningful error if someone is using previously installed libraries without proper dynamic linker configuration. (That's not an argument against your patch; we should improve the documentation as well as adding better detection of this common problem.) -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
