On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, nrbruin<nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > > On Aug 11, 2:50 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [snip] >> 1. A major government agency -- we can't use Sage unless you >> provide a version that contains no binary components and that builds >> from source using the latest released version of GCC. > [snip] > > It puzzled me a bit how SBCL could be ported and distributed at all if > it *doesn't* do this, so from purely academic interest, I tried to see > where things go wrong. SBCL's documentation seems to indicate that one > should be able to build SBCL via this route: > > - build CLISP from source as a host system to bootstrap SBCL from > - build SBCL from source in CLISP and then use SBCL/CLISP to build > SBCL proper > > (they don't mention ECL, but you may even be able to use ECL as > host).
I suggested this approach to said government organization, and they said "no way". -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
