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

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