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

[Óscar Fuentes]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> 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).

If Emacs' configure script detects and uses gmp by default, Phillip's
build is being built with libgmp support, because it is certainly
present on his MSYS2 install.

(Also to note, MSYS2 does not make separate packages libfoo and
libfoo-dev.)