Its a good thing that we already make available binaries for those people with less Linux experience Whatever we can do to make Sage "work out of the box" is good (i.e. I know its 99% there but it will be even better if we can avoid asking people to ensure certain things are installed and are certain versions - even when people choose to build) So, in a nutshell, its a +1 from me FWIW
(Of course this is subject to any vetos from anyone saying why this wont work under certain circumstances) On Feb 22, 10:52 pm, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Are we sure this would work? Won't those libraries depend on what > kernel is installed, etc, etc? > > I'm completely ignorant on this, so may be talk out my proverbial. > > Bill. > > On 22 Feb, 11:27, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > > This came up on the thread "mercurial on t2" but I thought I'd start a new > > thread on it. > > > I'd propose that we include in any binary distribution gcc's C, C++ and > > Fortran > > shared libraries. They would be placed in $SAGE_LOCAL/lib. Then we can > > ensure > > that people will run Sage with what libraries Sage was built with, rather > > than > > what versions they may or may not have lying around. > > > The amount of bloat this would add to the binary would be very small. For > > Solaris, the compressed sizes of the files are: > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 drkirkby staff 1.5M Feb 22 10:10 libstdc++.so.6.0.10.gz > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 drkirkby staff 717K Feb 22 10:10 > > libgfortran.so.3.0.0.gz > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drkirkby staff 80K Feb 22 10:10 libgcc_s.so.1.gz > > > So adding all 3 adds 2.3 MB of extra code to the binary. But given the > > binary is > > 500 MB (not untypical), that is less than 0.5% of bloat. > > > By doing this, we ensure that people > > > * Always have the libraries. > > * Always have the exact same versions Sage was built with. > > > I believe the Fortran library might already be included for Linux (I have > > not > > checked), but I'd suggest all 3 were added to binaries. > > > The C library is the one people most likely will have, but given it is by > > far > > the smallest, we might as well include it to be 100% sure. > > > Comments? > > > 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
