On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 04:33:56PM +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote: > > It's no different than any other library used by any other program. > > I wouldn't object to configure support to request static gmp/mpfr for > > developer convenience, but GCC is a perfectly normal dynamically > > linked program and should behave like one IMO. > > How a compiler can be "a perfectly normal dynamically linked program", > especially if it's the system compiler? IMHO the less dependencies the > better in this case.
I honestly don't know how to answer this question. Bootstrapping is an unrelated problem, and the compiler is not a vital runtime component of the system, so its dependencies do not need to be exceptionally robust in the way that glibc's or even libstdc++'s do. If you were talking about linking libstdc++ to MPFR I'd have a different story to tell. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
