Re: [open-cobol-list] Failure during configure

[Simon Sobisch]

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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:09:05 -0000 (GMT)
> From: "Dave Stratford" <address@hidden>

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> Downloaded the 2.0 771 branch and trying to compile.
> 
> Fails at the configure stage:
> 
> 
> 
> configure: Checks for GMP ...
> checking gmp.h usability... yes
> checking gmp.h presence... yes
> checking for gmp.h... yes
> checking for __gmpz_init in -lgmp... yes
> configure: error: Unable to extract GMP version information from gmp.h
> 
> $ tail /usr/local/include/gmp.h
> #define __GMP_CFLAGS "-O2 -pedantic -fomit-frame-pointer -m64
> -mtune=nocona"
> 
> /* Major version number is the value of __GNU_MP__ too, above and in mp.h. */
> #define __GNU_MP_VERSION            6
> #define __GNU_MP_VERSION_MINOR      1
> #define __GNU_MP_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL 0
> #define __GNU_MP_RELEASE (__GNU_MP_VERSION * 10000 +
> __GNU_MP_VERSION_MINOR * 100 + __GNU_MP_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL)
> 
> #define __GMP_H__
> #endif /* __GMP_H__ */
> 
> 
> Any ideas please?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Dave.
> 

Yes: I *guess* /usr/local is not a part of the standard your C compiler
uses. If this is the case you can fix this by doing the following:

  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"

Simon