Dave, Did you check that Cygwin does not have its own iconv patches? It used to have patches...
Dmitrii On Feb 15, 5:02 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > William Stein wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > > <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > >> The latest release of R in Sage will not build without iconv on Solaris. > >> The > >> option to disable the use of iconv, which was previously done in > >> spkg-install, no longer functions. R *needs* iconv, and the one in Solaris > >> is not suitable. > > >> Hence I propose that iconv is made a standard package. > > >> I've created a ticket > > >>http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8191 > > >> and have also created the package - see > > >>http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/new-packages/iconv/ > > >> At this point, I've marked the ticket as 'needs info' as I have no added > >> the > >> Mercurial repository, so it is not really ready for review. But the only > >> change I intend making is to add the repository. Hence it would be useful > >> if > >> people could test this. > > >> I've tested it on > > >> * sage.math Linux (defaults to 64-bit) > >> * bsd.math OS X (defaults to 64-bit) > >> * OpenSolaris 06/2009 on a Sun Ultra 27 (Intel Xeon processor) - 32-bit > >> * OpenSolaris 06/2009 on a Sun Ultra 27 (Intel Xeon processor) - 64-bit. > >> * Solaris 10 03/2005 on a Sun Blade 1000 (UltraSPARC III+ processor) - > >> 32-bit > >> * Solaris 10 03/2005 on a Sun Blade 1000 (UltraSPARC III+ processor) - > >> 64-bit > > >> All tests pass, except on Solaris 10 (SPARC) where one dumps core. I'll > >> just > >> have to live with that for now. I will report it to the developers. > > >> So can this go into the standard distribution? > > >> Have I overlooked anything in SPKG.txt or spkg-install? > > > Wow, thanks for all this work getting this together. > > > I personally think that iconv should be much more easily allowed in as > > a standard Sage package (no big waiting period when it is optional > > etc.) since it is now _required_ by a standard Sage package (namely > > R). > > > -- William > > The iconv package is now ready for review. > > spkg-check now exists, along with the Mercurial repositories. > > The files $SAGE_ROOT/spkg/install and $SAGE_ROOT/spkg/standard/deps are > attached > to the ticket. > > Please review > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8191 > > which should be useful on both Solaris and Cygwin. > > 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
