Any comments from Robert Miller? John
On 22 February 2010 19:39, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > On Feb 21, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> The addition of >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6583 (implement 2-isogeny >> descent over QQ natively in Sage using ratpoints) >> >> sage-4.3.1 broke the build of Sage on Solaris. I suspect this was the >> ticket, but Minh had proved this some time back, after starting with Sage >> 4.3, he added all the patches until the Sage build broke. It was #6583 which >> broke the build. >> >> (Since then, someone updated R without checking that on Solaris, but that >> issue has been resolved - or at least I believe it has been resolved. I >> noticed Minh attempted a build of sage-4.3.3.alpha1 on t2, using my updated >> iconv and R packages. Both iconv and R built OK, but the Sage library is >> failing. >> >> I've created a trac ticket for this bug >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7867 >> >> Robert Miller shows on this ticket what is causing the problem. >> >> /* >> * It is invalid to compile an XPG3, XPG4, XPG4v2, or XPG5 application >> * using c99. The same is true for POSIX.1-1990, POSIX.2-1992, POSIX.1b, >> * and POSIX.1c applications. Likewise, it is invalid to compile an XPG6 >> * or a POSIX.1-2001 application with anything other than a c99 or later >> * compiler. Therefore, we force an error in both cases. >> */ >> >> and suspected it might be related to the fact the ratpoints code is old. >> >> Assuming the R (#8285) and iconv (#8191) tickets get positive review (and >> I note Minh is going to look at them), it only leaves this issue that is >> stopping Sage building on Solaris 10 (SPARC). >> >> Does anyone have any ideas how to get around this? >> >> I don't know how important #6583 it so Sage, or how important William sees >> a Solaris port as important, but at the minute, these two appear to be >> mutually exclusive. > > I don't have any instant fixes, but can confirm that #6583 is very important > to some of us. > > - Robert > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
