From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:55:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <83bmecy6fx.fsf@gnu.org> <0d3175d8-d996-651e-b221-71978bde3a65@cs.ucla.edu> <87tvpdnzgy.fsf@tromey.com> <4c2a814f-c254-29e5-39cf-11b5f2e5c9c8@cs.ucla.edu> <59b83fc3-d2e3-634b-111a-11d7a89d0315@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531090435 14856 195.159.176.226 (8 Jul 2018 22:53:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 22:53:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tom@tromey.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 09 00:53:51 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 1fcIYv-0003jb-AG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:53:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38501 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcIb2-0006nD-94 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcIap-0006lg-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcIao-0001Za-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44424) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fcIaW-0001GO-92; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fcIaV-0002xy-Mg; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:55:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <59b83fc3-d2e3-634b-111a-11d7a89d0315@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 7 Jul 2018 21:58:48 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:227140 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > On operating systems where GMP is not in the base > installation. One example is Solaris 10; I'm sure there are > others. We could strongly suggest installing GMP before building > Emacs, as we already do for a GnuTLS and few other libraries; but > at least at first I doubt whether we'd want to absolutely require > GMP, just as we don't require GnuTLS. I don't think we should go to very much trouble just to make installation on Solaris 10 easier. GMP and GNUtls are not comparable issues. Bignums will have a pervasive effect on the Emacs C code. I expect TLS affects only a small part of the code. I expect that supporting with and without TLS is a small job compared with supporting with and without bignums. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)