On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > >>> Just to add that even the very latest release of Solaris (Solaris 10 >>> update 7) on SPARC only ships with gcc 3.4.3. Users using SPARC >>> hardware are unlikely to have root access as it tends not to be used by >>> home users too much (yours truly is a bit of an exception). >>> >>> I just checked on 'disk' too, which is running the November 2008 version >>> of OpenSolaris, and that too only appears to have 3.4.3. >> >> I'm not sure how much of an argument that is, since I'm not enough of >> a masochist to try build Sage on Solaris with the system-wide standard >> compilers. > > I don't follow that argument. > > If the standard compiler will build Sage, it gets over a big hurdle. > Building gcc from source on Solaris is no easy task. Lots of people have > trouble with it. > > Lots of people wont have root access on Solaris machines. Neither > Micheal nor I have managed to produce a gcc binary that did not require > LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set to include the compiler's libraries. > > I think Sage binaries produced for distribution would be smaller, as > there would be no need to include various gcc libraries. > > So IMHO, if Sage would build with 3.4.x, it would be a big plus.
I certainly agree that it would be a huge plus. I just consider it "too difficult". Moreover, every single person I know but you who has put work into porting Sage to Solaris has started by building their own GCC 4.x and toolchain. These are all people who are extremely good at porting (not just Michael Abshoff, but other people too). I think they have a point. Can one build sage-4.1.1 on Solaris right now and have it pass all tests, even with a custom toolchain? > How much of an issue is it to sort out ratpoints? I suspect it would be easy, but I haven't tried. > Note another issue with ratpoints is that it does not respect CC > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7038 William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
