I know there is no immediate (if ever) intension to support HP-UX, but while I was trying to build Sage on my Sun, I decided to try it on a rp2470 with two 750MHz 8700 PA-RISC CPUs (td192.testdrive.hp.com on the HP testdrive program)
http://www.testdrive.hp.com/ Anyway, not surprisingly the build did not succeed, but I thought I'd report the issues. It would be nice to a port to another operating system, as HP-UX is unsuppored by both Matlab and Maple, although Mathematica does support HP-UX. My guess is that it would not take too much effort to add HP-UX support and there are likely to be benifits to all systems, as a port is likely to uncover bugs that have not been noticed on other operating systems. Anyway these were the issues. 1) HP's tar does not take the -i option which ignores directory checksum errors. I'm not sure if this is really needed in Sage (why ignore errors)? But this was easily solved by building gnu tar, putting it in $HOME/bin, and ensuring $HOME/bin was in the path before the system directories, so the gnu tar was found. 2) Next issue was with readline. Sage says the readline built ok, but the libraries were not present. It also tries to build something called 'b' which the makefile does not know how to build. I'm not going to bother posting the full output, as I know there are no plans for HP-UX, but basically: Make: Don't know how to make b. Stop. *** Error exit code 1 (ignored) Readline's build claims to have finished, but files that should have been built weren't. Anyway, that is all I did. I'm far more keen to see a Solaris port, but perhaps HP-UX might be worth a shot, as I doubt it would present too much hassle. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
