Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-6.12.208-2441

[Elbert Pol]

Hi Jim,

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Elbert Pol<address@hidden>  wrote:
> ...
> > I found a newer build from Gmp v4.21 for os/2
> > With that i came further but still error with the make...
>
> If you have any libgmp*.a files, what symbols do they contain?
> E.g., I'd run something like this to check for the missing __gmp_scanf:
>
>      cd /usr/lib; nm -e libgmp* |grep scanf
>
> In any case, please change configure like this
>
>      perl -pi s/gmpz_init/gmp_sscanf/g configure
>
> and try again.
> That might make the link succeed, but without gmp support in factor.

I had just little time at the moment to test, but if i will build 
without the Gmp, what effect this to the Coreutils build?

This is inside the libgmp.la

# libgmp.la - a libtool library file
# Generated by ltmain.sh - GNU libtool 1.5.6 (1.1220.2.94 2004/04/10 
16:27:27)
#
# Please DO NOT delete this file!
# It is necessary for linking the library.

# The name that we can dlopen(3).
dlname=''

# Names of this library.
library_names=''

# The name of the static archive.
old_library='gmp.a'

# Libraries that this one depends upon.
dependency_libs=' -lsocket'

# Version information for gmp.
current=7
age=4
revision=1

# Is this an already installed library?
installed=no

# Should we warn about portability when linking against -modules?
shouldnotlink=no

# Files to dlopen/dlpreopen
dlopen=''
dlpreopen=''

# Directory that this library needs to be installed in:
libdir='/usr/local/clamav/lib'