On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:54:47 +0000
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:44:41PM +0100, Trog said:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 09:01 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > 
> > > But the implementation raised a question - the fix for the bug is
> > > basically a reimplementation of some functions already present in
> > > gmp,
> > > and gmp is already one of the libraries used at compile time.  Is
> > > there
> > > some reason to reimplement the function locally instead of just
> > > using
> > > the ones already present?  Is it that you don't want to force
> > > building
> > > with gmp?
> > 
> > gmp is optional.
> > 
> > -trog
> 
> Well, I understand that it is literally optional - you can compile
> clamav without it.  However, since freshclam kicks up giant warnigs 
> without it, it is effectively required.  Is there some reason not to
> just make it required?  Does some platform that clamav wants to
> support 
> not also support libgmp?

ClamAV is being used on embedded devices that don't support libgmp for
various reasons.

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