Re: --with-gmp and --with-libgmp-prefix

> I was talking to a colleague and we noticed the top-level binutils-gdb
> configure accepts --with-gmp, which looks like what gcc's configure uses to
> specify the gmp library installation path.
> 
> But gdb's configure expects that information to be passed through the
> --with-libgmp-prefix switch. Was that a deliberate choice (I'm looking at
> commit 2c947d9bc2ff3b84f1676b83577fe1bba05b4a5f).
> 
> When one is used to building gcc, it is a little odd to have to specify
> --with-libgmp-prefix instead of --with-gmp.
> 
> The top-level configure lists this:
> 
>   --with-gmp=PATH         specify prefix directory for the installed GMP
>                           package. Equivalent to
>                           --with-gmp-include=PATH/include plus
>                           --with-gmp-lib=PATH/lib
> 
> And gdb's configure lists this:
> 
>   --with-libgmp-prefix[=DIR]  search for libgmp in DIR/include and DIR/lib
> 
> I'm wondering if we can reuse the top-level configure's --with-gmp option.

Deja vu ;-)

The problem is that GDB has some shared configury that follows
a certain style, which is not the style that is used by the toplevel
configury. This triggered a number of discussions, but in the end
we found no good solution, unfortunately.

-- 
Joel