Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I need some guidance on what do about some issues we have. I'll > summarise, since not everyone is going to be aware of them. > > 1) Sage will not build on Solaris SPARC due to issues in the latest > official ecl. (It is not the only issue, but is one of them). > > 2) The ecl developers have solved that, and there is a CVS snapshot > which builds ecl ok on Solaris. A new ecl release will be out in less > than a week. > > 3) I created a ecl.spkg, based on a snapshot I took yesterday, which > allows ecl to build on Solaris. > > I put it at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/Solaris-fixes/ecl-9.4.1.p0/ecl-9.4.1.p0.spkg > > 4) We are not using the latest maxima. (Sage uses 5.16.3 with a couple > of patches (maxima-5.16.3.p2.spkg) > > 5) The latest maxima is maxima-5.18.1
> 6) The problem persists in the latest maxima. I forgot to state the problem!!! The problem is that Maxima will not build on the latest cvs snaphot if ecl, due to a bug in maxima, not in ecl. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
