On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > Georg S. Weber wrote: >> As usual, >> >> tests are needed. There were problems in the past with the pretty old >> and outdated "tar" on Mac OS X 10.4.11. As long as this continues to >> work OK "out of the box", I'm fine with changes. Could you place >> somewhere a "foobar.tar.bz2" where the "new" tar is used, so others >> can check it out? >> >> Cheers, >> Georg > > I created the latest (version 1.22 GNU tar), using: > > $ ./configure DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT=POSIX > > It passes all tests > > ## ------------- ## > ## Test results. ## > ## ------------- ## > > 70 tests were successful. > 7 tests were skipped. > > (Coincidently, 7 tests were also skipped on my Sun Ultra 27. My 3.33 GHz Xeon > managed to beat sage.math by around 12 seconds, which made me feel good!).
Try testing sage.math in /tmp or /scratch instead of /home (which is a relatively slow NSF mount). -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
