Re: Statically linking with libgmp and libmpfr

On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM Vahedi, Shahab via Gdb
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I've managed to _work around_ this by populating a "static only" lib dir
> and pointing the "configure" to it:
>
> $ mkdir -p /only/static/libs
> $ cp /usr/lib/libgmp.a  /only/static/libs
> $ cp /usr/lib/libmpfr.a /only/static/libs
>
> $ tree /only/static/libs
>   /only/static/libs
>   |-- libgmp.a
>   `-- libmpfr.a
>
>
> $ configure ...                              \
>             --with-gmp-lib=/only/static/libs \
>             --with-mpfr-lib=/only/static/libs
> $ make
>
> $ libtree -vv gdb/gdb
>   [ no signs of gmp or mpfr ]
>
>
> I still am interested in an out-of-the-box approach, if any, like GDB <= 13.2.

The out of the box approach is to put the GMP/MPFR sources in the top
level directory and that will build gmp/mpfr (static only) and link
against those .
So don't build GMP/MPFR separately when building gdb.

Thanks,
Andrew

>
>
> Cheers,
> Shahab