On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:27 PM, ahmet alper parker <aapar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Ticket #6580 [1] is meant to have ratpoints build with GCC 3.4.x. The >>> Sage build farm uses GCC >= 4.0.1 and ticket #7021 [2] has the updated >>> package prereq-0.4 which checks that the target platform has GCC >= >>> 4.0.1. With the updated prereq-0.4 spkg, it invalidates the GCC 3.4.x >>> requirement of ratpoints. Do we really need/want to support GCC 3.4.x? >>> >> >> Just to summarize some arguments... >> >> AGAINST supporting GCC 3.4.x: >> >> [ ] it increases the work by Minh and I >> [ ] we do not have any computers with gcc 3.4 right now, so would >> have to install gcc 3.4 on them. >> [ ] we rarely get requests from people who want to build sage with >> 3.4 (it happened once in the last two months) >> [ ] the new configure script that David Kirkby wrote requires gcc 4.x >> [ ] Robert Miller broke 3.4 support by introducing the ratpoints >> spkg in May, and it seems nobody has been motivated to do anything >> about this. >> >> FOR supporting 3.4.x: >> >> [ ] It probably would be easy at this point, since it just means >> fixing ratpoints. >> >> [ ] This reminds me of when we dumped support for Cygwin in 2007. >> In retrospect allowing that was a big mistake which I regret, because >> it has made getting support for Cygwin back vastly more difficult (in >> fact, so far impossible, since nobody has done it). >> > Has anyone tried to build for interix instead of cygwin? > http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-interix
No. Isn't that hard to get? At one point there was discussion of using SUA = Services for Unix, but one drawback to that is that it is only available on Vista Pro. 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
