The instructions at https://gmplib.org/devel/repo-usage ?

[Marc Glisse]

On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Dennis Clarke wrote:

> On an amd64 FreeBSD 12.1 boxen :
>
> vesta$ hg clone https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp/ gmp
> requesting all changes
> adding changesets
> adding manifests
> adding file changes
> added 18082 changesets with 45579 changes to 3329 files (+5 heads)
> new changesets 379532a8f9a8:9240f425c585
> updating to branch default
> 2070 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
> vesta$
> vesta$ cd gmp
> vesta$ ./.bootstrap
> configure.ac:3782: warning: AC_LIBTOOL_PROG_COMPILER_PIC is m4_require'd but 
> not m4_defun'd
> acinclude.m4:2363: GMP_ASM_X86_GOT_UNDERSCORE is expanded from...
> configure.ac:3782: the top level

The messages talk a lot about m4. You wouldn't happen to have forgotten to 
install m4?

It would be simpler for you to stick to the releases and snapshots, where 
pre-generated files are available.

-- 
Marc Glisse