Re: Configuration bug in GMP 4.1.2

[Kevin Ryde]

"Krzysztof Kozminski" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Maybe just add a hint to be printed when
> this particular test fails, so that the output looks like this:

I think I'd rather improve the test to find an nm that can do what we
need.  Normally it should exist, and the test already does a search
for an nm that can be put into BSD format.

> Perhaps this whole issue should be added to the Known-Build-Problems page
> until the configuration script tests the compilers' consistency?

C and C++ matching is discussed under CXX in the Build Options
section.

The plan, eventually, would be to have configure check that CC and CXX
can work together.  Perhaps even to search for a CXX that can work
with CC, and try some flags to put it in the right ABI.

But until that happens we've gone with an explicit --enable-cxx so
hopefully anyone using that will have read the notes on it in the
manual.