On Nov 30, 3:36 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, mabshoff
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> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Nov 30, 1:58 pm, Jim Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Hi Jim,
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> >> I am puzzled by one of the binaries:http://sage.math.washington.edu/
> >> sage/osx/powerpc/sage-3.2-G5-PowerMacintosh-Darwin.dmg
>
> >> Does the "G5" in the name mean it's specific for the G5 processor?
> >> Usually the binaries are named according to the OSX version -- is
> >> this one for OSX 10.4 or 10.5?
>
> > That is an OSX 10.4 binary build on a G4. I am not 100% sure if it
> > will be running on a G4. That G5 is the only 10.4 box we have access
> > to 24/7 and it is also substantially faster (and has multiple CPUs)
> > than any G4. So if you are attempting to run it on a G4 I would be
> > very interested to see what happens if you run "make check"
>
> I've never noticed any problems yet with running code on a G4 that was
> built on a G5. All OS X ppc binaries I build ever are done on G5's,
> I think, and I've seen them work fine many times on G4's. So please
> report any problems.
>
> - William
In light of all of this, i.e. the names of binaries on sagemath.org
are inconsistent I would suggest we either add an option to create
binaries with canonical names (i.e. using lsb_release on Linux and
some uname magic on OSX for example) or do that per default for -
bdist. I.e. on an x86 Fedora Core 9 system a
./sage -bdist 3.2.1
would yield
sage-3.2.1-Fedora-9-x86.tar.gz
This info can be extracted on Linux via lsb_release
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ lsb_release -i -s
Fedora
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ lsb_release -r -s
9
If that doesn't exist we could fall back to uname or not add anything
to the name.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Michael
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