Hi James, This is actually a bug in MPIR. It should work fine on your hardware.
Can you please post the error messages you get when you type configure. Bill. --- On Mon, 10/5/09, James <ja...@onyx.nurealm.net> wrote: > From: James <ja...@onyx.nurealm.net> > Subject: illegal instructions and sage > To: "William Hart" <hart...@yahoo.com> > Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 6:56 AM > Hi > > I'd like to plead for support of older hardware. > > I still run an older athlon, > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu family : 6 > model : 4 > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) processor > stepping : 2 > cpu MHz : 1333.169 > cache size : 256 KB > ... > cpuid level : 1 > wp : yes > flags : fpu > vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov > pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up > bogomips : 2666.33 > clflush size : 32 > power management: > > and I wanted to run a recent version of sage, > sage-4.1.1-linux-Debian_GNU_Linux_5.0_lenny-i686-Linux.tar.gz. > > Well, as you probably already know, this will not work > because of some of the > instruction extensions used in mpir, particularly the sse > instructions, which > my processor does not have. I tried to simply > recompile mpir for my older > processor, with > > ./sage -f mpir-1.2.p4 > > but, again, this will not work. mpir does not even > get past the "configure" > tests. > > Apparently, mpir insists on using the extended instruction > set, and simply > fails to compile without them. > > This is quite the "show stopper" for any of us with older > hardware - no mpir, > and no sage either. > > So then, I now plead for your support of older hardware in > mpir, by making > whatever changes in "configure" and in the effected code, > which will allow for > some kind of "fallback" code to be produced. > > Please. Please? > > > James > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
