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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP).
Date: 28 May 2002 20:56:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873cwcumn0.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874rh7n0ng.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

> OK, well we should keep that in mind, though as long as GMP supports
> the target architecture, and we arrange guile to handle a
> --with-gmp=/some/prefix argument, I'm not sure that keeping a copy of
> GMP's source tree inside ours buys much over just making sure the GMP
> tarfile is handy, and that we have good docs about any required
> configure args, etc.

Technically, I think we should not have a copy of GMP in our sources.
The libltdl thing is already somewhat confusing: when you first
configure Guile without a libltdl in your system, it will install it.
When you configure a new version of Guile, it will find the old
libltdl and will use it, while it should probably replace it with the
new version from Guile.

I'd say the user should explicitely state that he/she doesn't want to
use GMP.  When --without-gmp is not given, configure should abort when
GMP is not found.  Otherwise people might be tricked into building a
Guile with inferior number support without noticing it.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-28 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-09 20:17 Project: a good floating point printer/reader Marius Vollmer
2002-05-13 21:01 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-15 18:30   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-16 15:35     ` The Guile license and the use of LGPL libs (like GMP) Rob Browning
2002-05-16 16:44       ` Greg Troxel
2002-05-16 17:01       ` Bruce Korb
2002-05-16 17:12         ` Rob Browning
2002-05-21 19:55           ` Carl R. Witty
2002-05-21 23:44             ` Rob Browning
2002-05-16 17:21       ` Jeff Read
2002-05-16 17:22         ` Rob Browning
2002-05-16 20:40           ` Jeff Read
2002-05-16 23:17             ` Rob Browning
2002-05-16 23:35               ` Jeff Read
2002-05-17  0:02                 ` Rob Browning
2002-05-28 18:56               ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2002-05-28 18:28       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 18:54         ` Bruce Korb
2002-05-28 19:23           ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 19:39             ` Bruce Korb
2002-05-28 19:54               ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 20:16                 ` Bruce Korb
2002-06-01 16:01                   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-28 19:02         ` Rob Browning

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