GMP 6.2 error

Niels Möller nisse at lysator.liu.se
Wed Apr 1 18:21:38 UTC 2020


Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> writes:

> Seriously, I think that the default prefix is non-sense. But this is
> not a GMP issue either, rather an autoconf issue.

Consistency is nice too. I think it's old tradition to allow trusted
non-root users to install things under /usr/local. E.g., on Debian
GNU/Linux, if you're a member of the group "staff", you have sufficient
permissions for a default

  ./configure && make && make check && make install

install of gmp, or any other GNU package. As well as many non-GNU
packages, even some not using autoconf. And that's still how I install
more or less everything that I install from sources rather than from
binary packages.

Regards,
/Niels

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