From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@silcnet.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 03:31:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: clarify why --with-gmp exists
X-Git-Tag: silc.server.0.9.6~51
X-Git-Url: http://git.silcnet.org/gitweb/?p=silc.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=311b158b8460ce3f80e597026bf3bcf872486837

clarify why --with-gmp exists
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 7fc09ca4..847e9e68 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ file for more generic installation instructions.
 library instead of using the MPI library included in the package, you can
 give the --with-gmp[=DIR] option to the `configure'.  The DIR is the upper
 path in your system which contains lib/ and include/ for GMP library.
+   Note that MPI is the prefered arbitrary precision arithmetic library and
+GMP can be used as a fall-back if you have problems with the MPI library
+included within this package (GMP was used as a default library in the past).
 
 '--with-iconv[=DIR]'