[MPFR] bug report (?)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2014-04-14 16:21:47 -0600, Matthew Niemerg wrote:
> I am submitting this to both gmp and mpfr, as I am not sure where the
> culprit of this bug really is.  I have downloaded the latest gmp (6.0.0a --
> there wasn't a 6.0.0 option) and have successfully built it.  However, when
> I attempted to compile mpfr with the latest gmp, doing both an internal
> build (--with-gmp-build) and gmp directory flags (--with-gmp-dir), during
> the configure step, I received an error
> 
> "
> configure: error: GMP_NUMB_BITS is incorrect.
> You probably need to change some of the GMP or MPFR compile options.
> "

It could be an ABI related problem due to an incorrect installation.
You should provide the config.log of GMP and MPFR.

> I am using no additional configure flags, apart from using the gcc-4.7.3
> compiler.

If you use CC=gcc-4.7.3 in the configure line, this will disable the
automatic CFLAGS detection by MPFR, with known problems if you are on
a machine with a 32-bit ABI by default. Something like that.

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