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: Merging bignum to master Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:41:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877ekwu1mn.fsf@tromey.com> <48742e8c-fffb-7fe0-bb12-2ce3dc171603@cs.ucla.edu> <837ekvlau2.fsf@gnu.org> <03f39b77-dc7a-5e52-69f1-a78efb3060f0@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 1534387182 27607 195.159.176.226 (16 Aug 2018 02:39:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 02:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 16 04:39:38 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 1fq8CH-00076Y-Vr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 04:39:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8EO-0004xm-6x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44262) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8ED-0004wq-R4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8EC-0000sM-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:41:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60049) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8E6-0000kM-6W; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:41:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8E4-0006kc-UA; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:41:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <03f39b77-dc7a-5e52-69f1-a78efb3060f0@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:41:16 -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:228580 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. ]]] > Strictly speaking, I supose the GNU Coding Standards require Coreutils to have > both a --with-gmp option (to control whether the GMP library is used) and an > --enable-bignum option (to control whether bignums are supported). Why would we need both? Given --enable-bignums, which seems fundametally to fit the purpose, is there really a reason for --with-gmp? Do we support bignums other than using gmp? > I'd be more inclined to go in the direction Tom Tromey suggested, > which is to no longer require a sharp distinction between > --with-FOO and --enable-FOO since the distinction's confusion is > more trouble than it's worth. To me that sounds like surrendering to confusion without trying to clear it up. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)