2009/12/29 Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]>: > William Stein wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Dr. David Kirkby >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Is there anyone actively working on changing Sage's source so it builds >>> with gcc >>> 3.4.x? >>> >>> Is there any point in trying, given the 3.4 series is so old and newer >>> releases >>> of gcc are readily available on any platform? >>> >>> 'prereq' will exit for gcc older than 3.4.0 and also for the buggy 4.0.0, >>> but >>> for 3.4.x it will just issue a warning. >>> >>> I see 3 problems with this myself. >>> >>> 1) The warning flies past so quickly on a fast machine, you would have to be >>> very eagle-eyed to see it. >>> >>> 2) I doubt anyone is trying to fix 3.4 series issues. >>> >>> 3) Solaris does ship with gcc 3.4.3, which means someone can start the >>> build, >>> even though it will ultimately fail. >>> >>> I'd propose I simply update prereq to simply exit for any gcc < 4.0.1. >>> >> >> Exit, but with a message about setting a specific environment variable >> that will allow the build to continue. >> >> We should *definitely, definitely* not shut the possibility of >> supporting 3.4, just because nobody is currently fixing ratpoints. >> >> -- William >> > > This is now > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7352
Oops, that was the previous update. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7781 is the ticket to update this again -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
