On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Niels Möller wrote:
Martin Storsjö martin@martin.st writes:
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Niels Möller wrote:
They're archtecture dependent, depending mainly on GMP_NUMB_BITS on the target system. One option is to bundle mini-gmp, see http://gmplib.org:8000/gmp/file/mini-gmp. Or if one is prepared to limit the support to 32-bit and 64-bit limbs, one could generate tables for both sizes and include in the tarballs.
Hmm, both solutions do sound pretty sensible - and thanks for the pointer to mini-gmp. Hooking that up during the cross-builds I mentioned should possibly be easier than building and installing a full GMP, even if it isn't included in release tarballs.
I'm about to add mini-gmp now. Should help also for native compilation, in the case that -lgmp isn't enough for the linker to find a suitable gmp library.
Great, that sounds promising, and will absolutely help a lot in at least two setups I know of.
eccdata needs some tedious changes to work with mini-gmp, since it lacks gmp_f?printf. Those calls have to be replaced by a mix of regular printf and mpz_out_str.
(Note that mini-gmp is LGPLv3, just like recent GMP, but that shouldn't matter for nettle users as long as mini-gmp is used only for the eccdata program).
Yes, this shouldn't be an issue.
// Martin