On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:54:47 +0000 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? ClamAV is being used on embedded devices that don't support libgmp for various reasons. -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Sun Oct 30 15:02:39 CET 2005
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