On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> wrote:
> I was actually thinking of removing the convenience copy of gmp, as it > appears virtually everyone is dynamically linking against the system gmp > shared library. Camm, I'm an outsider to the GCL project, and I haven't been following carefully. But anyway my advice is to avoid bundling GMP with GCL itself, and link against an externally installed library. That will work for any system which is less than some number of years old. The trade off is that it might not work for very old systems (where very old = at least 10 years old; maybe someone has a more specific number). I think that's an acceptable trade off. Maintaining backwards compatibility means there's less time for moving forward -- essentially taking away from all newer systems to benefit a much smaller number of old systems. FWIW Robert PS. I guess one might find some inspiration in other Common Lisp systems which make use of GMP or similar libraries -- I have no idea which those are, or how they go about it.
