Re: Bignum not detected by default

"Ben Wing" <ben(a)666.com&gt;, on Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:13:28 -0600 you wrote: It's still considered an experimental feature. If the Board considers it to be sufficiently stable, we could vote to make it autodetected. In my opinion, the GNU MP stuff is quite stable. I've used it a fair amount over the last 9 months or so with no problems. The BSD MP stuff is terrible, though. BSD MP is just too limited. We should probably remove support for it. We should also consider Hrvoje's suggestion that we make it possible to unpack a GNU MP tarball into the XEmacs build tree, then detect and use it if there is no installed GNU MP library. This is somewhat complex because you really want to build GNU MP with optimizations for the CPU you actually have. An i386-optimized GNU MP performs terribly on a Pentium 4, for example. If we can solve that problem, we can eventually make the move to requiring GNU MP, which would make all kinds of simplifications possible. -- Jerry James http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~james/