#1280 closed defect (wontfix)
GMP with an Athlon64 cpu
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description (last modified by )
Reported by Farid Bouzaghti
On 32-bit systems with an Athlon64 cpu, GMP detects it as x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. If CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS are set, GMP will try to build 64 bit libraries. The book should recommend to unset these variables before building GMP on AMD64, or to pass ABI=32 to configure (not sure whether this works well, I'll try it later...). Futhermore, GMP authors recommend to run the test suite (make check) before installing.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 20 years ago
comment:3 by , 18 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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Recommend closing this bug as won't fix. The information for AMD64 can be included on the UserNotes page.
comment:4 by , 18 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
One of the reasons we added a wiki to BLFS is for users to add just this kind of note there. There is too much to try to have BLFS support all architectures.
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Not sure what to do about adding instructions specific to a particular hardware. This would be an absolutely never-ending bug; with all packages.
As far as running the testsuites, I do not understand why BLFS elected to print instructions that don't run them.
*All* packages that include testsuites should have instructions to run it/them.