Hi, On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Anyway, by far the biggest problem is the "cannot compute suffix of > object files" failure due to trying to install the prerequisite libs > by hand in arbitrary places unknown to the dynamic linker. A more > useful configure check would be to test that early on and fail with a > meaningful message. > I hope to avoid getting flamed for this, but ... If I give gcc a --with-gmp=<path>, I do NOT understand why that is not enough. Though I admit I do not understand all of the dynamic library location machinery. From what little I understand, If gcc built itself with -rpath then all would be cool??? Maybe a new configure option: --enable-self-rpath? I don't know what else gmp *might* be used for on this system (in this case a Toshiba A75 (3.2 GHz p4)). Debian 5.x did install a gmp (library is libgmp.so.3.4.2). But I installed a specific version for gcc to use. ... just cauz buildin stuff is a hoot. kevin P.S.: why is the lib for gmp-4.3.2 called libgmp.so.3.5.2????????
