Randy McMurchy wrote: > I believe most of the information he has was determined by > seeing what was going on over at DIY. I know that they discussed > it a bit over there. You may want to check the DIY archives.
Well, DIY lets GCC build them internally on all passes. When I posted, I was already aware of the DIY method, but I wanted to see what our current rationale was and if there was something I missed. >> I'm just curious, what was the rationale behind building gmp and mpfr in >> different manners within the same book? To be more specific, why let >> GCC build them internally for its own use on GCC pass1 and then build >> them separately for the other two passes of GCC? > > I'm not sure the rationale. But you bring up a good point. > Perhaps it has something to do with GCC pass 1 having GMP > and MPFR built in the GCC tree makes those libraries statically > linked to GCC. > > Then, in Pass 2 of GCC perhaps it was/is undesirable to have > the GMP and MPFR libs statically linked. I'm just guessing, though. > We'll have to get DJ's input on that one. Yeah, looking forward to that. Thanks for the reply, Randy. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
