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30.1; configure doesn't find libgmp on macOS

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From: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 30.1; configure doesn't find libgmp on macOS
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:15:20 +0100

When running configure on macOS with libgmp installed via Homebrew:

[...]
checking for gmp.h... no
checking for gmp/gmp.h... no
[...]
  Does Emacs use the GMP library?                         no
[...]

I've installed libgmp via Homebrew.  I think to fix this, the configure
script should either use pkg-config:

$ pkg-config --cflags --libs gmp
-I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gmp/6.3.0/include -L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gmp/6.3.0/lib -lgmp

or add /opt/homebrew/include to the include path, and /opt/homebrew/lib
to the library path.  Using pkg-config seems like the cleaner option.


In GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 2, aarch64-apple-darwin24.3.0, NS
 appkit-2575.40 Version 15.3.1 (Build 24D70)) of 2025-02-25
Repository revision: 8ac894e2246f25d2a2a97d866b10e6e0b0fede5a
Repository branch: HEAD
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2575
System Description:  macOS 15.3.1

Configured using:
 'configure --with-modules --with-xml2 --without-pop --with-mailutils
 'CFLAGS=-g -O3' LDFLAGS=-O3'

Configured features:
ACL GNUTLS LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER PNG SQLITE3
THREADS TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  minibuffer-regexp-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  indent-tabs-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug phst skeleton pcase ffap thingatpt url
url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods url-history url-cookie
generate-lisp-file url-domsuf url-util url-parse auth-source cl-seq
eieio eieio-core cl-macs icons json map byte-opt gv bytecomp
byte-compile url-vars rx message sendmail mailcap yank-media dired
dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068
epg-config gnus-util time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse
rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 mm-util ietf-drums mail-prsvr mailabbrev
mail-utils gmm-utils mailheader gnutls puny elp dbus xml compile
text-property-search comint subr-x ansi-osc ansi-color ring cl-loaddefs
cl-lib rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify
ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/ns-win ns-win
ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image
regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode
prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu
timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core
term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic
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jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs
theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties
overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap
hashtable-print-readable backquote threads kqueue cocoa ns lcms2
multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 72646 16697) (symbols 48 8487 0) (strings 32 21420 2264)
 (string-bytes 1 567060) (vectors 16 15172)
 (vector-slots 8 153568 7669) (floats 8 31 5) (intervals 56 241 0)
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Message #8 received at 76556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 76556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76556: 30.1; configure doesn't find libgmp on macOS
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:11:49 +0200

> From: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:15:20 +0100
> 
> 
> When running configure on macOS with libgmp installed via Homebrew:
> 
> [...]
> checking for gmp.h... no
> checking for gmp/gmp.h... no
> [...]
>   Does Emacs use the GMP library?                         no
> [...]
> 
> I've installed libgmp via Homebrew.  I think to fix this, the configure
> script should either use pkg-config:
> 
> $ pkg-config --cflags --libs gmp
> -I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gmp/6.3.0/include -L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gmp/6.3.0/lib -lgmp
> 
> or add /opt/homebrew/include to the include path, and /opt/homebrew/lib
> to the library path.  Using pkg-config seems like the cleaner option.

We could use pkg-config for that, but we must have the falback to the
current code, because some versions of GMP don't install pkg-config
files.  E.g., on my development system I have no gmp.pc in the
pkg-config directory.

Patches welcome.

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