Re: GMP on OSX errors

[Kevin Ryde]

glenbo <address@hidden> writes:

> the bad character, called a caron I found out, is at the end of the file,
> and it is not in add_n.asm originally. when add_n.asm becomes tmp-add_n.s
> the caron is added to the end of the file.

Hmm.  Do you get it if you just do,

        cd mpn
        m4 ../config.m4

> So, I did it for all 7 .asm files in mpn/. Iknow that's a total
> kludge, but after the asm files were out of the way it finished
> compiling with no errors.

Good.

> I was happy until I ran 'make check' which didn't work:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: archive: ../../.libs/libgmp.a has no table of contents, add
> one with ranlib(1) (can't load from it)

Alas, our libtool snapshot doesn't run ranlib.  This will be fixed in
the next release.  For now, after the "make" you can do it manually

        ranlib .libs/libgmp.a

(and do it to .libs/libmp.a too if you're using --enable-mpbsd).

You'll need this for your own programs as well as "make check".