On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM, David Joyner<wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> > 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. >> >> 7) An ecl devoper has created patches against the latest maxima in cvs. > > > I'm not an expert on these matters, so pardon me if this is a dumb question. > If I understyand you correctly then the latest maxima builds against this > new version of ecl in your spkg. If that is correct, then I wonder if there is > also a new spkg for this latest version of maxima. If so, others could try > testing them against other achitectures.
+1 Make packages so that everything works, but don't include them in sage-4.1.1. When will the next Maxima come out? Maybe that's for sage-4.2 or sage-4.1.2? William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
