>
>
> >> if test -d ${srcdir}/gcc && test x$have_gmp != xyes; then
> >> ...
> >> fi
> >>
> >> but I think that the whole test now belongs in the GCC subdirectory, not
> >> in the toplevel (it was anyway a hack for the sake of disabling Fortran).
> >
> > Moving it is not really a good thing anyways as you are able to configure
> > and then do a "make -j3" and it is hard to figure out why the build fail
> > because you don't have the correct version of GMP/MPRF.
>
> Maintainability first. If something fails with parallel make, and is
> reproducible with plain "make" (i.e. doesn't screw up the build
> directory), I don't see a reason not to move it. You'd do "make" anyway
> to check if a dependency is missing, wouldn't you?
But this is a different case as this error is for users rather than developers.
So instead of getting an error early before compiling, we get an error 10 to 20
minutes later and users get upset that they get an error this late for something
which could have been found early on.
-- Pinski
