Tim Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you > > carefully install the appropriate versions of GMP and MPFR on one > > machine in the normal way, and build gcc on that machine, > > cc1/cc1plus/etc. wind up dynamically linked against libgmp.so and > > libmpfr.so. If you then copy the compiler to some other system, or > > simply run it from another system via NFS, and you have not carefully > > installed the appropriate versions of GMP and MPFR on that other > > system, the compiler will fail to start, getting an error from the > > dynamic linker. > > I simply dump the required .so into the lib64 directory of my new gcc > installation, and tar up the whole thing. I can untar into my own > directory on systems where I have no root access. No doubt others do > the same.
I know that there are many ways to handle this but the point is that it should work easily and conveniently without extra work. Ian
