Re: Q re Mac Leopard OS

["Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>]

On Mar 1, 2008, at 01:30 , Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:27:27AM -0700, Kurt Foster wrote:
> > http://gmplib.org/macos.html
> >
> > which basically says the Xcode C compiler won't compile gmp properly.
> >
> > What I want to know is,
> >
> > (a) Is that caution out of date?
> >
> > (b) If not, what do I have to do to work around the problem?
>
> As far as I understand, you should install gcc from upstream source  
> and
> use it to build gmp, instead of using xcode gcc.

Really?  I build gmp without problems on Mac OS X, both 10.4.11 and  
10.5.2.  I am using the gcc supplied with Xcode 2.5 (build 5370) in  
10.4  and 3.0 (build 5465) in 10.5.

In addition, gmp builds with "native" gcc in Sage (<http:// 
www.sagemath.org>) on these systems.  The Sage build does apply a  
couple of patches (Mac OS X 10.5 and some versions of Linux, and for  
some processors), but when I build gmp stand-alone, I just  
"configure" and "make".

Justin

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