On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Cyd Haselton <chaselton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Cyd Haselton wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 06/12/14 18:25, Marc Glisse wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, Cyd Haselton wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Is this something to report to mpfr or gmp maintainers or here? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> You should first try a recent version of GMP. The one from >>>>> download_prerequisites is older than Android... >>>> >>>> >>>> If we need to update download_prerequisites we can easily do that. >>>> >>>> Andrew. >>>> >>> See my most recent question about current version and stability. >>> Also, version 5.0.0 did not resolve the issue. >> >> >> 5.0.0 is not that recent either... >> (why anyone would first try version x.y.0 when many x.y.z are available is >> beyond me) >> > > Because there's a balance between later stable version and later > version that works with an in-tree build of GCC/MPFR/MPC. > My reasoning was that 5.0.0 is the next version up from 4.3.2...which > is the version specified in download_prerequisites...but that was > before finding out that version 5.0.0 introduced a bunch of new code. > 6.0.0 is the most stable version, but Additionally see this link https://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-devel/2014-April/003778.html which is one of the many results of Googling "latest stable gmp that works with mpfr, mpc." Finding the correct information about which versions work with others is a game of sifting through lots of mis-info....i'm lucky that the link hsppens to mention version 3.1.0 of mpfr is needed to work with gmp 6, but what about mpc? I could just wing i...download mpfr 3.1.0 and gmp 6 and cross my fingers...but, if it doesn[t work, downloading multiple versions of *any* source to re-do in-tree builds is kind of a pain on an Android device... >>> Additionally, while I can configure gmp on Android, I cannot build it >>> as some of the dependencies...specifically mpn...require M4 and >>> setting M4=m4-not-needed does not work for them. >> >> >> Passing --disable-assembly to configure might make m4 optional (in gmp-6). >> > > Thanks...I will try that. > >>> While I'm working on >>> porting a lot of standard linux utilities to Android, I'm limited to >>> those that require a minimum of reconfiguration and/or ones that I'm >>> somewhat familiar with. M4 is outside of both of those requirements. >> >> >> I don't think m4 should be hard to port (but I have no experience with >> android). > > Is the build complexity similar to, say, curl? > >> >> -- >> Marc Glisse
