From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@autistici.org>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb 11.1: configure doesn't check for gmp existence
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 16:39:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4efb3f32-6867-4b4f-307d-9c07e307e2ec@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878ry7x3zh.fsf@autistici.org>
On 2021-11-01 11:58 a.m., Andrea Monaco via Gdb wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> gdb 11.1 depends on the gmp library, as docs also confirm. But
> ./configure completes with success on my GNU/Hurd system even if the
> library is not present, and then make aborts. I think that configure
> should fail if a strict dependency is missing.
>
>
> Andrea Monaco
>
Can you show the error you get? Normally, when you type "make" at the
top-level that will run the configure script in the gdb directory, and
that's when it should fail. If that's what you get, then this is expected
(with how the build system currently works).
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-01 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-01 15:58 Andrea Monaco
2021-11-01 20:39 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2021-11-01 22:19 ` Andrea Monaco
2021-11-01 22:48 ` Rainer Orth
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