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

[Phillip Lord]

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).

No, it's built with it. I am picking the dependency up
transitively. It's probably going to work in perpetuity, but it's
clearly bad and it should be named as a dependency. I will fix.

Phil