Regarding comment 48: I understand we fixed the issue with the "no PIC" requirements for x86 Mac 32 bits ages ago. So no longer any need to delete all those assembly files. They aren't (or shouldn't be) used on Mac x86 any more. Jason, can you comment on this?
Regarding the error message itself, which is to do with PPC Mac, not x86 Mac, this looks like it could be a build bug in MPIR. It's telling you that an assembly instruction (contained in an MPIR assembly file popcount.s) is being used that is not supported on all PPC macs of that vintage. This bug likely got inherited as none of us has written any PPC code for MPIR. You can try adding the indicated option, which may fix it on this *particular* machine. How much do we care about these ancient Macs? I am assuming here you are not overriding MPIR's choice of options which is supposed to be correct by supplying it directly with a CC and CXX (which you basically can't do with MPIR safely unless you know precisely which options to provide...) If so then I recommend building MPIR on its own on this machine and see what is passed to CC and CXX (about line 8 of the configure output), and have Sage pass that. You can look in the file configure.in to see the different options that are passed on different machines and how they are differentiated. If it does prove to be a bug in MPIR, please report to the mpir-devel list so we can follow up and make necessary changes. Regarding --enable-fat, this does not work on PPC (and never will). It is only valid on x86 and x86_64. Re comment 68: I would ignore the locale thing. The machine is so ancient that there is unlikely anything we can do about it. Unless Sage commonly uses commas instead of decimal points to represent floating point numbers in strings passed to MPIR, it isn't going to matter in the slightest. It looks like someone set the test to not fail but simply be skipped because it is essentially harmless. In my opinion this has more to do with finance than mathematics, where Euros are written 128,00 instead of 128.00 in some countries, etc. Bill. On 6 November 2010 10:17, Mitesh Patel <qed...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > When you have a chance, could you look at the ticket to upgrade the Sage > MPIR spkg: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8664 > > In particular, there are two recent comments by Leif Leonhardy: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8664#comment:48 > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8664#comment:68 > > Thanks! > > Sincerely, > Mitesh > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-de...@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.