On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philipp Christian Loewner wrote: >> From what I understand about it, building GMP and MPFR as separate >> packages is the preferred method, but the bootstrap build will fail >> to locate these programs in the /tools directory in the first stage. > > Hmmm. I read through that thread already, but I didn't see any reasoning > for why the current approach. I don't know why installing them as > separate packages is preferable. Some things to consider: > > * Only GCC needs them.
Just for the record, I know guile can use an external libgmp: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=blob;f=configure.in;h=e67e1d84;hb=HEAD#l820 Google shows that clamav and openswan use it, too. I don't know if that's compelling enough, but I thought it should be known. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
