On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:25 PM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008-07-27 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Support arbitrarily-long numbers with GNU MP. > * m4/gmp.m4: New file; adds cu_GMP, which detects GNU MP. > * configure.ac: Use cu_GMP.
At the moment, the cu_GMP macro will always use GNU MP if it is available. $ ls -lh /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3.4.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 253K 2008-04-09 08:23 /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3.4.2 Although libgmp itself has no further dependencies other than the C library, this is still a large-ish extra dependency. Should we also introduce a --without-gmp option to configure? I also remember Jim mentioning something about supporting large numbers in expr. That seems feasible, though based on the number of discussions over the last year or two I would suggest that perhaps using GMP in "seq" might also be a win; thoughts? James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
