Re: [PATCH 05/11] gnu: gmp: build shared library for mingw.

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Andy Wingo writes:

>> +                  ,@(cond ((mingw-target?)
>> +                           ;; Static and shared cannot be built in one go:
>> +                           ;; they produce different headers.  We need 
>> shared.
>> +                           `("--disable-static"
>> +                             "--enable-shared"))
>> +                          (else '())))))
>>     (synopsis "Multiple-precision arithmetic library")
>>     (description
>>      "GMP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on
>
> LGTM.  A bit of a shame that mingw is an abnormal architecture in this
> way -- i.e. other targets will have both static and shared libraries,
> but not this one.  Oh well, this does look to be the right thing for
> now.

Okay, thanks.  Yes, I can imagine that when we find that this change is
needed for more packages/libraries we may want to make a function for
it.

Greetings, Jan

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