Re: Emacs 28 pretest MS Windows snapshots

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
>> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2020 15:16:38 +0100
>> 
>> >   . link against libgmp statically, or
>> >   . build Emacs without libgmp, using src/minigmp.c instead
>> 
>> 
>> I don't mind adding libgmp.
>> 
>> But, I have tried both my emacs-27-no-deps and emacs-28-no-deps package,
>> neither of which have libgmp bundled. Emacs-27 launches okay, but
>> Emacs-28 complains about libgmp missing. Has the default changed between
>> the two?
>
> Then perhaps you have libgmp linked in statically into Emacs 27, but
> not Emacs 28?  What does the dependency walker say?
>
> FWIW, my Emacs depends on libgmp in both versions.  But I don't use
> static linking, never have.


Well, as far as I know, I build them with the same options.

dependency walker mentions libgmp (with a grey box rather than a red
one) for Emacs-28, but does not for Emacs-27.

Phil