configure can't find libgmp

[Christer Jansson]

Hi,

I'm trying to build Guile, but it fails already at the configure script.

This is the printout:

checking for __gmpz_init in -lgmp... no
configure: error: GNU MP not found, see README

Ok so I look in the config.log file and I find:

configure:35538: checking for __gmpz_init in -lgmp
configure:35573: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib co
nftest.c -lgmp  -lm -lltdl  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
___gmpz_init
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:35579: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */

      ----- skipped header file contents ------

| /* end confdefs.h.  */
|
| /* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
|    Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
|    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C"
| #endif
| char __gmpz_init ();
| int
| main ()
| {
| return __gmpz_init ();
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:35597: result: no
configure:35607: error: GNU MP not found, see README

So I tried to compile an identical program with the same command and
got the same result.

Funny thing is, I've got GNU MP installed under /usr/local and when I
trace the execution of the compilation, it seems like the linker finds
it. And when I run nm on the libs, it says the symbol is defined.

Passing this information to configure via
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include and LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib didn't make
any difference.

So the mystery is this; the GNU MP libs apparently are accessible,
they apparently define the symbol (___gmpz_init) and still gcc
complains about that symbol missing:

$ gcc -o conftest -g -O2   ~/conftest.c -lgmp  -lm -lltdl
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
___gmpz_init
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
$

One other thing I find slightly mysterious is the fact that the source
does not define any macro adding an extra underscore, and it only
refers to __gmpz_init, but the symbol defined in the libs and reported
as missing is ___gmpz_init.

I'm using Mac OS 10.4 on a G5 processor.

Anyone got a clue?

-- 
Christer