Add a caution in the gmp section about possible

"Illegal Instruction" errors if the host is misidentified 
or the libraries are copied to different systems.



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Bruce Dubbs 2016-04-07 20:28:40 +00:00
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<para>2016-04-07</para>
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<para>[bdubbs] - Add a caution in the gmp section
about possible "Illegal Instruction" errors if
the host is misidentified or the libraries are
copied to different systems.</para>
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<para>2016-04-05</para>
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<para>Test the results:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check 2>&amp;1 | tee gmp-check-log</userinput></screen>
<caution><para>The code in gmp is highly optimized for the processor where
it is built. Occasionally the code that detects the processor misidentifies
the system capabilities and there will be errors in the tests or other
applications using the gmp libraries with the message "Illegal
instruction". In this case, gmp should be reconfigured with the option
--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and rebuilt.</para></caution>
<para>Ensure that all 190 tests in the test suite passed.
Check the results by issuing the following command:</para>

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