Bignum not detected by default

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp at xemacs.org> writes:

>>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry James <james at eecs.ku.edu> writes:
>
> Jerry> We should also consider Hrvoje's suggestion that we make it possible to
> Jerry> unpack a GNU MP tarball into the XEmacs build tree, then detect and use
> Jerry> it if there is no installed GNU MP library.
>
> I'm not sure about including it directly in the tarball but there
> are other situations too where it would be good to be able to use a
> library that can't be assumed to be part of the user's default
> configuration.

The reason I suggested that was to enable us to make bignums an
integral part of XEmacs, like they are in CLISP or Python.  If bignum
support remains an "option", its usefulness is IMO questionable.