One possibly data point is that GCC 4.3.2 miscompiles GMP and MPIR on x86_64 and as far as I know cannot and will not be worked around.
There were also bugs in GCC 4.3.3 which miscompiled FLINT, but as far as I know that issue never affected Sage. On Apr 3, 8:17 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > The part of the sage manual dealing with installing Sage from source code > > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html > > says "Does not build with gcc 4.3.0 yet, but work is ongoing to fix that" > > Is this information true? > > I'm updating this section of the manual - see > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11081 > > and would like to know if this is still true or not. > > I know Sage did not build with version 3.4, and I think some were looking at > sorting that out. I wonder if this comment in the manual is about 3.4, but > someone accidentally transposed the 3 and 4, so it reads 4.3 > > 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
