Flurry of GMP check failures

Niels Möller nisse at lysator.liu.se
Sat Nov 5 20:50:39 UTC 2016


Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at inria.fr> writes:

> Uh? I have 2 very natural use cases for libgmp.a:
>
> 1) to build a static (or at least with few dependencies) executable
> that I am going to send to someone else [...]

> 2) I am rebuilding GMP on my specific platform in order to get the
> best possible performance. [...]

I see. In these cases, is it important whether or not libgmp.a uses pic
code?

Regards,
/Niels



I might as well use a static libgmp to
> squeeze that extra bit of speed out of it (I might even want to use
> LTO in that case, although IIRC it currently causes some trouble in
> configure).
>
> Note that I do not care about security in either case.

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