Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Dec 14, 2009, at 1:09 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> I'm not so sure prereq is the right place. >> >> For a start, one could potentially want to use the scripts in >> 'prereq' to test >> for a specific compiler. But more to the point, if you look at >> prereq, it really >> does not have anything like this. It could be added to the tar file, >> but it >> would be quite easy to make a mistake in updating that tar file, as >> you would >> need to copy the files first to $SAGE_LOCAL/bin, then create the >> tarfile. >> >> In contrast, putting them in spkg/base seems less problematic to me. > > I could see putting this in spkg/base, but if there are many more > things like this, then it might make more sense to have a new > bootstrap spkg, or at least directory.
I don't see myself creating more like this, so I think creating a new directory would not be necessary. > It seems like spkg/base should > be as sparse and simple as possible. Fair enough. > BTW, what is stdint.h_Solaris9 doing in that directory? No idea - it is not something I added. I know there is one bit in Sage, which does copy some sort of header file for Solaris 9 only. But since Sage is supported only on Solaris 10 and later, it seems a bit pointless. Whilst I think it would be a good idea to get Sage to build with Solaris >=8, I'd personally rather sort out the issues that exist *properly*, rather than adding bits of header file. As such, I would suggest this is removed. > - Robert Thank you Robert. Do the following seem ok to you (or anyone else for that matter)? 1) Add testcc.sh and testcxx.sh to spkg/base 2) Remove spkg/base stdint.h_Solaris9 3) Add to spkg/install the code to copy spkg/base/testcc.sh and spkg/base/testcxx.sh to $SAGE_LOCAL/bin - pretty trivial addition to a pre-existing 'cp' command. 4) Add to spkg/install the portable version of the code I have for computing seconds since the Epoch? (It just happens to need to go into the same file as the code for copying testcc.sh and testcxx.sh). Dave -- 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
