> I'm not sure about that. In fact I'm always suggesting the in-tree > variant to people (because then they don't need to fiddle with > LD_LIBRARY_PATH). After suggesting to simply install the requirements > from vendor provided packages, of course.
The proper fix to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue is rather --disable-shared in my opinion... > Maybe we should simply import the requirements into our tree > and use them unless the system provides what we need (or > --with/without-system-FOO is supplied). We do that for other > stuff like zlib, intl, boehm, etc.. gmp 6.0 now has 'mini-gmp' > which is a slow but very small variant for example. Not sure > if that's enough for our gmp needs for example. That would clearly be the definitive answer, but I don't know if it's doable in practice. -- Eric Botcazou
