Re: GMP compile problem

[Kevin Ryde]

"Duncan Seibert" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> I have a SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 machine with GCC as my compiler. When I try to
> compile gmp-4.0.1 I get an error: line 543: Syntax error. Line 543 of the
> Makefile is: libgmp.la: $(libgmp_la_OBJECTS) $(libgmp_la_DEPENDENCIES).

I've encountered this myself on an irix system too.  Seems to be the
rather long list of dependent files in $(libgmp_la_DEPENDENCIES) which
causes the problem.  I'll add the few words below for the next
release.  Thanks for your report.



`make' syntax error
     On certain versions of SCO OpenServer 5 and IRIX 6.5 the native
     `make' is unable to handle the long dependencies list for
     `libgmp.la'.  The symptom is a "syntax error" on the following
     line of the top-level `Makefile'.

          libgmp.la: $(libgmp_la_OBJECTS) $(libgmp_la_DEPENDENCIES)

     Either use GNU Make, or as a workaround remove
     `$(libgmp_la_DEPENDENCIES)' from that line (which will make the
     initial build work, but if any recompiling is done `libgmp.la'
     might not be rebuilt).