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Re: [feature/native-comp] breakage on build


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [feature/native-comp] breakage on build
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 15:33:03 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> gmp is a dependency of gcc-libs, and gcc-libs is a dependency of almost
>> every other package that contains binary executable code.
>
> GMP is now (since v27.1) a direct dependency of Emacs, since we
> support bignums.

But it's optional.  So from what Phil says it seems that his Emacs is
built without using libgmp (falling back on the mini-gmp that's bundled
with Emacs instead), which is probably suboptimal in the case where do
have a hard dependency on something that already require gmp (like
libgnutls).


        Stefan




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