On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:44:41PM +0100, Trog said:
> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 09:01 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 
> > But the implementation raised a question - the fix for the bug is
> > basically a reimplementation of some functions already present in gmp,
> > and gmp is already one of the libraries used at compile time.  Is there
> > some reason to reimplement the function locally instead of just using
> > the ones already present?  Is it that you don't want to force building
> > with gmp?
> 
> gmp is optional.
> 
> -trog

Well, I understand that it is literally optional - you can compile
clamav without it.  However, since freshclam kicks up giant warnigs 
without it, it is effectively required.  Is there some reason not to
just make it required?  Does some platform that clamav wants to support 
not also support libgmp?

Just sort of curious - it seems like more work than is necessary to
reinvent the wheel.
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