On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:32:06PM +0100, Fran?ois-Xavier Coudert wrote: > >> Here is a patch to fix PR libfortran/21547: when building with > >> --with-gmp=/foo/bar and a shared libgmp in /foo/bar, the > >> $(RPATH_ENVVAR) variable (usually LD_LIBRARY_PATH) is not set > >> correctly when using the freshly built gfortran to build libgfortran. > >> The same thing happens for the gfortran testsuite, and the fix is also > >> included in this patch. > > > > Why wouldn't mpfr have the same problem? > > Sorry not to mention that. It can (although it usually doesn't, > because the default for libmpfr is to build only a static library), > and this is fix by the same patch. In fact, in the gcc configury, all > occurences of GMPLIBS, GMPINCS always take care of both gmp and mpfr. > I followed this lead, and GMPLIBSDIR points to the directories where > gmp and mpfr are installed, if different. All this is done in the > toplevel configure. >
The newest version of mpfr will build a shared library. In fact, we should move to using the newest version, but I think some/many people would object to having two external library dependencies. -- Steve
