On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 07:10:23AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > I just noticed a problem with our use of GMP and MPFR. 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. > > We need a configure time option to link statically against GMP and > MPFR even if dynamic versions of the libraries are available. >
I have been doing it ever since gmp was introduced. Otherwise, my gcc binaries aren't very useful as you have discovered. H.J.
