On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
Martin Albrecht wrote:
People often CC me onto tickets to test on Solaris. Unfortunately, I
don't have the time to test every patch on Solaris.
Nor do I. Or test every patch on all of Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian, OS X,
etc. (and soon Cygwin), though building on Solaris seems to be
touchier than most systems. We should put Solaris/OpenSolaris one one
of the build farm VMs at least, so the release manager can bounce
patches that don't work there.
Fortunately the vast majority of patches shouldn't break anything on
this level.
Yet 't2' is available for anyone to test their changes. That
machine was supplied
free by Sun, who obviously want to see Sage running on Solaris.
For some reason I have some awe when it comes to t2 and testing on
it. With the patch you referenced applied, do I just do: make and
Sage will build and run? If that's not the case, can you give a
step-by-step guide how to build Sage?
There is general documentation on building on Solaris at
http://wiki.sagemath.org/solaris
However, it might be useful to have some very specifically for 't2'.
I'll write some documentation on that and put it on the Wiki.
However, in the short term, the following will set up everything on
't2' properly.
Thanks. I remember wanting to test something on Solaris a while back
and I didn't do it simply because I didn't have a clue how to get a
working Sage on t2, or even start compiling it. That and t2 is so slow
for building and testing. At least you you don't have to get a
separate account for it anymore as of the last Sage days (right?).
Hence I believe there is some merrit in producing a 4.3.0.1, which
has the one patch needed to get Sage to build irrespective of
whether the Sun compilers are installed. That would avoid users
needing root access to build Sage.
Depending how immediate the need is, could it wait 'till 4.3.2? Or are
you worried something else Solaris will break by then? If you
volunteered to be release manager I don't think anyone would disapprove.
- Robert
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