Keith Wansbrough wrote:
On this subject, where am I to get the libgmp2.a required
by 4.08.1
(on Linux anyway). I tried compiling the very latest version of GMP but it only produced a libgmp.a file. Is that the same?
Same happened to me. ln -s libgmp.a libgmp2.a worked for me. I satisfied myself I was doing the right thing by noticing all the 2.x.x version numbers on the libgmp source I'd compiled. Yes, that's what I did. Probably everyone has . . .
Sorry about that, my fault. I built the binary distribution from a build linked against libgmp2.a on our box here, and it isn't reasonable to expect everyone to have that library with the same name. In the future the binary distributions will come with a static libgmp, but the RPMs will still have a dependency on the right external gmp package. Cheers, Simon