On 19 April 2011 12:08, Qi Zuo wrote: > >> Yes, if you install gmp, mpfr and mpc without using --disable-shared >> then gcc depends on the shared libraries at runtime. >> >> See http://advogato.org/person/redi/diary/240.html (and the pages it >> links to) for a simple way to build gcc so you don't need to set >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to use it. > > I once built GCC as this web page suggested. However, it seems to > generate static libraries for gmp, mpfr and mpc rather than dynamic > ones. Yes, that's the whole point! If you use dynamic libraries gcc needs to find them. If you don't want to worry about that, use static libraries.