From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bignum branch Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:59:25 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <106a9e2f-c275-e4c1-eae1-7d5d0d29b00e@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87o9fbbw1t.fsf@tromey.com> <87a7qr8cz7.fsf@tromey.com> <86tvoy3je9.fsf@gmail.com> <86bmb0vbxf.fsf@gmail.com> <87k1pnfcg1.fsf@tromey.com> <86sh4b1833.fsf@gmail.com> <861sbgz3dm.fsf@gmail.com> <83a7q4ufxp.fsf@gnu.org> <87wot71hpb.fsf@tromey.com> <86in4rgt1m.fsf@gmail.com> <83pnyyu0k1.fsf@gnu.org> <86k1p59haq.fsf@gmail.com> <83va8osuz2.fsf@gnu.org> <87ftzrknyg.fsf@tromey.com> <87zhxwig5k.fsf@tromey.com> <86lg9gl7vy.fsf@gmail.com> <87tvo4i9em.fsf@tromey.com> <86k1ozl0yd.fsf@gmail.com> <83in4iojva.fsf@gnu.org> <86bmaasm39.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533887884 11989 195.159.176.226 (10 Aug 2018 07:58:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 07:58:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 To: Andy Moreton , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 10 09:57:59 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fo2J5-0002za-PP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:57:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54836 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo2LC-0003GW-4g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 04:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41148) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo2Kb-0003GN-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 03:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo2KY-0006bd-3p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 03:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:57868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo2KX-0006an-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 03:59:30 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A84E616103A; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id KoQv8Ckxq-tq; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0883F1610DE; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:59:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id xqOcoVvMb07N; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.154.30.119]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A5ED616103A; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:59:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86bmaasm39.fsf@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228355 Archived-At: Andy Moreton wrote: > I don't know how to fix the configury and makefiles to ensure it > links against a static library if it is available. Please keep in mind that we shouldn't prefer static linking on GNU/Linux platforms, even if a static library is available. These systems generally have a libgmp managed by standard tools like dnf or apt, and so the advantages static linking has on MS-Windows don't apply.