> -------Original Message------- > From: Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: RE: gfortan requires old directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH or else gmp error > Sent: 2007-11-22 15:18 [SNIP] > > > > 1. build gmp and mpfr static only > > 2. build gcc > > 3. remove gmp and mpfr > > 4. build gmp and mpfr this time with new gcc, shared and static > > This all sounds very hard. Why not simply install gmp and mpfr in > /usr/lib and be done with it? > > Andrew. > Two reasons. I don't have root, and I'm building a software stack (actually 4: Solaris32/64, Linux32/64), along with its own build toolchain, which lives out on an NFS share and is used across grid nodes. I don't want the new gcc to have dependencies on the old gcc that lives in /usr* -- Poor Yorick
