tuneup compilation error on Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS

[Paul Zimmermann]

> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:09:07 +0100
> From: Jernej Makovsek <jernej.makovsek at gmail.com>
> 
> gcc 4.2.4, gmp 5.0 and gmp 4.3.2
> 
> after $gmp-5.0/./configure which finishes without errors:
> $cd tune
> $make tuneup
> gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../tests    -O2 -pedantic
> -m64 -mtune=k8 -march=k8 -c tuneup.c
> In file included from tuneup.c:114:
> ../gmp-impl.h:102:23: error: fib_table.h: No such file or directory
> ../gmp-impl.h:103:22: error: mp_bases.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [tuneup.o] Error 1
> 
> don`t know what I`m doing wrong, It`s right out of the documentation.

you need to do "make" before "cd tune".

> Also where can I see what are "extremely large numbers" mentioned with the
> the `-f NNN' parameter in the documentation? Are they10Mbytes large numbers
> or 1Gb or 1kb? What does happen when I enter a small NNN value and use
> "extremely large numbers"?

I let the GMP developers answer this.

> Sincerely,
> Jernej

Paul