[Nix-dev] Re: Distinction between `gmp' and `gmpxx'

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Peter,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:

> Hi Ludovic,
>
>  > I would be in favor in keeping only one variant, with C++ bindings
>  > enabled, because it doesn't pull any additional run-time dependency to
>  > have them.
>
> I agree. I ran into problems because the standard gmp library doesn't
> include C++ bindings, so I added gmpxx as an additional variant because
> that felt like the least intrusive solution at the time. It's not a good
> solution, though. Unless there's a compelling reason why C++ bindings
> must be disabled by default, I'd be in favor of enabling them in gmp.
> That would make gmpxx obsolete.

I made this change in r16425, in `stdenv-updates' (we can't do it in
`trunk' since GCC depends on it.)

Thanks,
Ludo'.