Greg Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark Mitchell wrote: > > > I don't believe there's a serious problem with the concept, as long as > > "./configure; make; make install" for GMP DTRT. If you can do it for > > GCC, you can do it for a library it uses too. > > Just another data point. > > I tried building GMP on an i686-pc-linux-gnu Ubuntu system (but running on > AMD64 hardware). The GMP configure script is apparently too smart for its > own good because it detected my "build system" as x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and > configure failed. I had to pass --build=i686-linux to get configure to > complete. Yes, I should probably send a problem report to the GMP dev's..
I had the same problem on my powerpc-darwin system; the first build of GMP built a GMP for the 64-bit ABI, which is useless for building GCC.
