python bigfloat installation issues

Question

My Problem is similar to this poster and I'm using a MAC OsX 10.9.5 version:

python 'bigfloat' package installation issues

When I try to install the "mpc-1.0.2" package, it doesn't compile and gives this error:

grep: /home/case/local/lib/libgmp.la: No such file or directory
sed: /home/case/local/lib/libgmp.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/home/case/local/lib/libgmp.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[2]: *** [libmpc.la] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

My configure command is :

./configure --prefix=/users/username/local --with-gmp=/users/username/local --with-mpfr=/users/username/local

Can anyone or Casevh help ?

Answer 1

A few comments.

If your goal is to compile bigfloat , then you don't need to compile gmpy2 or MPC . The first part of my instructions were copied from process for compiling GMP , MPFR and MPC for use with gmpy2 .

In my examples, I usually use my local username case , a generic username , or occasionally another location. You will need to edit the commands to use the actual location where the files exist.

Both bigfloat and gmpy2 provide access to the MPFR library for arbitrary-precision floating point arithmetic. They do use slightly different APIs, especially for controlling the contexts.

gmpy2 also provides access to the GMP library (for arbitrary-precision integer and rational numbers) and to the MPC library (for arbitrary-precision complex numbers).

Disclaimer: I maintain gmpy and gmpy2 .