Re: --with-gmp and --with-libgmp-prefix
Luis Machado via Gdb <[email protected]>
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On 3/11/22 10:06, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> 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 ;-) > Hah. > 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. > Yeah, that's unfortunate. I was imagining GDB's independent configure would have something to do with it. Thanks for clarifying that. And sorry for bringing this back again. :-)