Greetings! On a related topic, do macosx users typically use macports, homebrew, or compile on their own? Likewise to windows users use cygwin or compile on their own?
Take care, David Scherfgen <d.scherf...@googlemail.com> writes: > Maybe a good compromise would be to: > - not bundle GMP with GCL > - use the system's libgmp by default > - but allow the user to specify a specific GMP library when configuring, e.g. > --with-gmp=/path/to/custom/gmp > > That would allow users with an older OS to still build their up-to-date GMP > version locally (without installing it, which might cause trouble?) and make > GCL use > that. > Or maybe that's already possible with the current configuration script? > > Best regards > David > > Am Sa., 22. Feb. 2025 um 21:35 Uhr schrieb Robert Dodier > <robert.dod...@gmail.com>: > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> wrote: > > > I was actually thinking of removing the convenience copy of gmp, as it > > appears virtually everyone is dynamically linking against the system gmp > > shared library. > > Camm, I'm an outsider to the GCL project, and I haven't been following > carefully. But anyway my advice is to avoid bundling GMP with GCL > itself, and link against an externally installed library. > > That will work for any system which is less than some number of years > old. The trade off is that it might not work for very old systems > (where very old = at least 10 years old; maybe someone has a more > specific number). > > I think that's an acceptable trade off. Maintaining backwards > compatibility means there's less time for moving forward -- > essentially taking away from all newer systems to benefit a much > smaller number of old systems. > > FWIW > > Robert > > PS. I guess one might find some inspiration in other Common Lisp > systems which make use of GMP or similar libraries -- I have no idea > which those are, or how they go about it. > -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
