Re: Q re Mac Leopard OS

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

On Mar 2, 2008, at 02:24 , Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 02:46:59PM -0800, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> > 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 (a) Is that caution out of date?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".
>
> Did you run make check ?

Replying to both you and to Kurt: yes, for my stand-alone builds.   
All tests passed.

If this comes as a surprise, I will re-run the build to make sure I'm  
not remembering how it used to be...

Justin

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