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| author | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2021-04-27 21:23:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2021-04-27 21:23:08 +0200 |
| commit | 75babf8df92b664e6118c839bad6f63e254a212b (patch) | |
| tree | e17756909d2f7e592111c5a0351990032ffe976f /NEWS | |
| parent | 7f18b659b93e97645546871fa93721ca31459045 (diff) | |
| download | guile-75babf8df92b664e6118c839bad6f63e254a212b.tar.gz | |
Add GUILE_INSTALL_GMP_MEMORY_FUNCTIONS to NEWS; use at build-time
* NEWS (GUILE_INSTALL_GMP_MEMORY_FUNCTIONS): Update
* libguile/numbers.c: Add needed include.
* meta/build-env.in (GUILE_INSTALL_GMP_MEMORY_FUNCTIONS): Set when
building Guile.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ GMP, and so does Guile. Since Guile 2.0.4, Guile has installed libgc as the GMP allocator, so since then, Guile-GnuTLS has been buggy. Therefore, the default is now to not install libgc as the GMP allocator. -This may slow down some uses of bignums. +This may slow down some uses of bignums. If you know that your Guile +program will never use a library that uses GMP, you can set the +GUILE_INSTALL_GMP_MEMORY_FUNCTIONS=1 in your environment. Guile sets +this environment variable when building Guile, for example. See +"Environment Variables" in the manual, for more. In some future, Guile may switch to GMP's more low-level "MPN" API for working with bignums, which would allow us to regain the ability to use |