On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:43 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 30, 3:36 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, mabshoff >> >> >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Nov 30, 1:58 pm, Jim Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi Jim, >> >> >> 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?
Great idea. Make it so! :-) Seriously, the only reason this isn't already done is that nobody got around to writing it. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
