On Jan 17, 2013, at 11:11 AM, minux...@gmail.com wrote: > some systems (notably NetBSD), doesn't place the path where libgmp,
I think gcc should try and build and run a gmp program and fail to configure if the binary can't also run. This prevents configuring and building on such a system. The gcc directions for building gmp and friends should say that they must be configured and built with --disable-shared --enable-static if the user doesn't have the installed lib directory in their environment.