From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Merging bignum to master
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:41:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fq8E4-0006kc-UA@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03f39b77-dc7a-5e52-69f1-a78efb3060f0@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:41:16 -0700)
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> 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)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-16 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-11 19:47 Merging bignum to master Tom Tromey
2018-08-11 21:28 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-12 16:34 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 12:21 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-14 0:21 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-15 23:41 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-16 15:38 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-19 8:26 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-17 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 6:29 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-12 8:09 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-12 17:21 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-12 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 19:30 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-13 0:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-12 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 23:53 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-13 0:20 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 7:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-08-13 8:06 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-13 9:14 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-14 23:09 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-13 23:31 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-14 1:41 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16 2:41 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-08-16 19:31 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-12 7:37 ` John Wiegley
2018-08-12 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 11:48 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-12 16:02 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 22:58 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-14 1:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-14 13:04 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-14 18:01 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-15 15:20 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-15 16:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-15 23:57 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-16 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-20 16:28 ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size. (Was: Merging bignum to master) Karl Fogel
2018-08-20 16:54 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-20 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 17:27 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-20 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 19:55 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-20 23:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-21 15:01 ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size Tom Tromey
2018-08-21 16:36 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-21 18:46 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-22 15:39 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-21 3:38 ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size. (Was: Merging bignum to master) Richard Stallman
2018-08-21 4:09 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-22 4:03 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 4:53 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-20 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-14 0:51 ` Merging bignum to master Andy Moreton
2018-08-15 15:46 ` Andy Moreton
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