On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:19:26PM -0400, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Mark Mitchell wrote: > > > Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > > > Has there been any thought to including GMP/MPFR in the GCC repository > > > like we do for zlib and intl? > > > > I do not think we should be including more such packages in the GCC > > repository. It's complicated from an FSF perspective and it bloats our > > software. GCC is a complicated piece of software, and to build it you > > need a lot of stuff installed on your system. I think we should just > > accept that. :-) > > So when I start using MPFR from the middle-end for PR 29335, it's okay to > force everyone building GCC to get MPFR? (I.e. not just the people who > want to build fortran.) > > If so, that makes my life much easier and I'm all for it. Including MPFR > was my way to smooth things over with this new dependency. I'm happy not > to have to do it. :-) >
Kaveh, It should be straight forward to modify the current configure tests in toplevel for the versions of gmp and mpfr you need. I would recommend at least mpfr 2.2.0 (which would allow me to kill the ugly hacks in gfortran). For gmp, you may be able to use a version as old as 4.1.0. -- Steve
