How to add libgmp.a to lds search path
Hi, I am trying to build fptools from CVS. I have managed to get the binary releases of happy-1.6 and ghc-4.08 working and configured fptools successfully. The next error I get is that ld cannot find -lgmp. So I built it from ghc/rts/gmp. Now, how do I make GHC _find_ that library. I do not have super user permissions on that machine, so I cannot "make install " LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored by ghc? Sven -- We must admit that looking at progress bars does not qualify as working -- Apocalypse Geek
Re: How to add libgmp.a to lds search path
Sven Kuenzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, I am trying to build fptools from CVS. I have managed to get the binary releases of happy-1.6 and ghc-4.08 working and configured fptools successfully. The next error I get is that ld cannot find -lgmp. So I built it from ghc/rts/gmp. Now, how do I make GHC _find_ that library. I do not have super user permissions on that machine, so I cannot "make install " LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored by ghc? Is it possible that you are using a Linux box on which the gmp devel libraries are not (properly) installed? Suse and RedHat do not install gmp development support by default (only if you explicitly install extra packages - eg, the gmp-devel rpm on RedHat). Manuel
Re: How to add libgmp.a to lds search path
"Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" wrote: Is it possible that you are using a Linux box on which the gmp devel libraries are not (properly) installed? Very likely. Our local sysadmins do not appear to consider integers a sufficiently common concept in computer science to justify a MB or so installing gmp. So I (like about 7 others no doubt) compiled my own copy of gmp and copied libgmp.a to where GHC puts its libraries: [installation directory]/lib/ghc-4.08/
