Use of the __GMP_CC and __GMP_CFLAGS macros

[Steve M. Robbins]

On September 24, 2012 09:33:28 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> So, we have a distro maintainer who refuses to provide
> a sensible GMP build/distribution. Is that correct?

That's not how I would characterize it, no.

The Debian maintainer (me) builds GMP according to the upstream instructions. 
This generated gmp.h file contains some information gathered at build time:

 /* Define CC and CFLAGS which were used to build this version of GMP */
#define __GMP_CC "x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu99"
#define __GMP_CFLAGS "-Wall -g  -O3"


Vincent doesn't find this information helpful, which is fine.  However, others 
might find it useful, so I don't find his arguments a compelling reason to 
deviate from other GMP installations.

I honestly can't see what the problem is.  I presume his build system will 
honour __GMP_CC if present.  But if it can cope with the absense of __GMP_CC 
then I can't see why it doesn't have a flag to ignore __GMP_CC when present.

Regards,
-Steve