On Jan 5, 10:13 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I'm also going to try to see if I can get SAGE to work on OpenBSD;
> > that's a much more secure OS (and it's easier to build a kernel on),
Well, opinions vary on that one, but OpenBSD is certainly a pretty
secure OS regarding remote exploits in defaults configs. That doesn't
mean mean squad in the real world, but the possibility to shoot
yourself in the foot on OpenBSD with a local shell are probably not
much worst than Linux [assuming you know what you do and secure the
OS]. Since an acoount with a Sage notebook server is equivalent to a
local shell something like Jails might be an additional tool in the
belt to secure a Sage install.
> > it would make a nice public SAGE server. That's problematic, though,
> > not sure I can get that to work in a week .... I'll let you know if it
> > goes.
>
> Michael Abshoff is porting sage to freebsd lately.
>
>From my experience on FreeBSD: install gtar, gmake and bash from
ports. Link gtar and gmake as tar and make somewhere in $PATH before
OpenBSD's tar & make since currently Sage doesn't work with the non-
GNU version. Also make sure that bash is in /bin since a lot of
scripts expect it to be there. I know, it is bad policy, but the sh on
Solaris screwed us so many times that we are switching over to bash
globally.
Then at least on FreeBSD you need to fix dynamic libraries for ATLAS
as well as compilation of Singular. I can provide you details, but I
actually plan to merge those fixes into 2.10. I you create or point
me to a nice OpenBSD VMWare image with development tools I can make
sure that Sage compiles on it. Note that is isn't a very high on my
priority list, but the 2.10 release cycle is the point in time to do
it.
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Cheers,
Michael
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