Bug#723658: libgmp-dev:amd64: failure when compiling with gcc -lmpfr without -lgmp

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2013-09-20 04:16:20 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On September 18, 2013 04:17:34 PM Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 
> > Not sure whether this is a bug in gmp or in the linker...
> 
> Is this peculiar to mpfr/gmp or simply a change in the linker [1]?  I don't 
> pretend to understand all the issues, so let me know what you find out.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking

Thanks for this information. I didn't know there was a change in the
linker. Then I don't know whether this is specific to mpfr/gmp. I'll
try to do some more tests, such as testing with mpfr/gmp compiled by
me on both machines, but I don't have the time before next week.

I also wonder whether something can or should be changed on how the
libraries are built to accept -lmpfr alone or both -lmpfr -lgmp are
now always required (this is what I always do, except in one particular
script[*], for which I noticed the difference between machines).

[*] I think I just forgot the -lgmp, but since -lmpfr alone was
accepted, I didn't notice.

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