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3GMP in NetBSD.  We need GMP for GCC >= 4.2.
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6Building GMP without configure - how to port GMP build to a new platform.
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8The GMP build doesn't map very well to normal make.  The ./configure phase
9creates a bunch of symlinks and weeds out the sources lists, and there are
10files with the same name in different subdirectories linked into the same
11final product.  All of these issues need to be dealt with.
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13There are a few steps to this:
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15	- run ./configure, save the output.  you can use the makefile
16	  "Makefile.netbsd-gmp" in this directory to run this with the
17	  right options, etc.  run it with nbmake-$MACHINE.
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19	- create src/external/gpl3/gmp/lib/libgmp/arch/${MACHINE_ARCH} dir,
20	  and copy these files into it:
21		config.h
22		config.m4
23		gmp-mparam.h
24		gmp.h
25		mp.h
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27	  some of these files might have src/obj references.  in particular
28	  fix GMP_MPARAM_H_SUGGEST to start from ./mpn/... and make sure
29	  we #define __GMP_CC to "gcc -std=gnu99".  XXX  make this automatic
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32	- parse the ./configure output and note all created symlinks
33	  for mpn.  these need to be converted into a new Makefile.inc.
34	  there is a script in this subdir build-gmp-Makefile.inc.awk
35	  that can be used to do this.  it should just work to generate
36	  the first section of Makefile.inc if fed the entire configure
37	  output.
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39	  assembler files generally want -DOPERATION_${foo} defined for
40	  each way they are compiled or pre-processed.  the pre-processor
41	  used is m4 to parse, and we and create .s files from the .asm
42	  files that we then we feed into $CC.
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44The amd64 port is a good reference to compare.  The trialdivtab.h
45generation may need to be moved the into libgmp/Makefile itself.
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48This is still a work in progress and methods used to build may be
49changed at any time.
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52mrg@netbsd.org
53- 2011/06/22
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