Why is it compiling GMP so hard?

[Fausto Arinos de Almeida Barbuto]

Hi Paul;

     Thanks for your reply.

At 03:35 PM 09/03/2005 -0500, you wrote:

Why don't you include the error message you are getting?

     I thought that wouldn't be necessary in the case that someone knew
     where I could find a Windows installer. But that isn't necessary
     anymore. See below.

Are you trying this using a bash shell window under cygwin or from
a (DOS) command prompt window?  It should be the bash shell
window.

     The bash shell window of course. The MS-DOS Prompt window is
     totally useless in this case.

If you have cygwin installed correctly, the m4 program should be in
the /bin directory.

     It wasn't, I checked! But your mail woke me up and I realized that
     this m4 program might not have been installed by default (ah, the
     little things we take for granted!). BINGO! I ran Cygwin setup
     program and found out that m4's box was unchecked. I then
     downloaded and installed it. After that, GMP compiled very well
     (and it took quite a while to finish), the library was generated
     and moved to the correct place.

     But I still haven't managed to compile GMP using gcc for DOS
    (DJGPP).

     Whatever m4 is or does, it seems that the lack of this program
     never affected the functionality of Cygwin or its suite of compilers
     (gcc, g++, g77).

     I haven't tested the library yet, but shall be doing it soon. Thanks
     to everyone who helped.

---Fausto


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