Amit Bhatia wrote:

I have the gcc version 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1640) on os X 10.3 I also have fink packages installed(all the usual ones). I am trying to install the PPL package where it shows the following requirements: http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/Download/requirements

Do I need to install GMP package or is it included and already installed? on doing "locate gmp", the following came up:

/sw/lib/libgmp.3.3.2.dylib /sw/lib/libgmp.3.dylib /sw/lib/libgmpxx.3.0.4.dylib /sw/lib/libgmpxx.3.dylib /sw/share/doc/gmp-shlibs

and some more.. so does this mean it is already installed? How can I check what version is installed? If it is not then how do I go abt doing it? I read at some other place that there are some mac specific issues?

Dear Amit,

I don't know which problem you are facing. However, my advice is to compile GMP from sources. I have just tried the following on a friend's computer runinng Mac OS X 10.3 and it works as expected:

$ mkdir -p tmp/ppl $ cd tmp/ppl $ wget http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.1.4.tar.bz2 $ tar jxf gmp-4.1.4.tar.bz2 $ cd gmp-4.1.4 $ ./configure --prefix=/Users/bagnara/tmp/ppl --enable-cxx --disable-shared $ make $ make install $ cd .. $ wget http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/Download/ftp/snapshots/ppl-0.8pre4.tar.bz2 $ tar jxf ppl-0.8pre4.tar.bz2 $ cd ppl-0.8pre4 $ ./configure --with-libgmp-prefix=/Users/bagnara/tmp/ppl --prefix=/Users/bagnara/tmp/ppl $ make

I hope it helps. All the best,

Roberto