[sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-02-01 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
As a user of sage, I'm quite happy with all of the work that has been going in to the Solaris port lately. Currently I have to use it from a zone running linux, which isn't so bad except the zones typically run older distributions of Linux. I know it creates additional work and I also thank all t

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Solaris + Frequency of public releases.

2010-01-21 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
The OpenSolaris development repository seems to have a release cycle of two weeks, but they have a source release or build which is made available for internal testing (and whoever wants to test it badly enough to build and install it themselves) roughly two weeks before each release. From a user

[sage-devel] Re: mpir.1.2.2 fails to build on Open Solaris 06/2009 in VirtualBox

2010-01-12 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
psrinfo -v seems to be one option, though I think /proc/cpuinfo seems to be better in linux. On Jan 12, 11:08 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > Bill Hart wrote: > > MPIR should detect all known intel and amd CPU's (MPIR 1.3 will also > > detect via and atom's), but for some reason it doesn't detec

[sage-devel] Re: Graphical Physics Program Suggestions

2009-10-24 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
On Sep 22, 6:25 pm, Tom Boothby wrote: > I spent a while thinking that I was going to be a mechanical engineer, > and took a few of the ME intro courses.  Engineering statics and > dynamics can be phrased entirely in terms of linear algebra, though > the courses I took didn't present them as su

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Solaris - now builds 'out of the box' with gcc 4.4.1

2009-10-19 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
On the latest opensolaris running on amd64 and using gcc 4.4.1 I did hit the bug you mentioned, but in sqlite (running the gnu autotools again for sqlite did not seem to help): ar cru .libs/libsqlite3.a sqlite3.o ranlib .libs/libsqlite3.a creating libsqlite3.la (cd .libs && rm -f libsqlite3.la

[sage-devel] Re: SCons in Sage

2009-10-19 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
The SCons wiki even seems to be trying to say cmake is better: http://www.scons.org/wiki/SconsVsOtherBuildTools ;-) I have no opinion myself, other than the problems you have already outlined; another dev I know has also expressed his dislike of it, but he cannot be trusted in this matter since h

[sage-devel] Re: The one remaining issue which stops Sage building on Solaris. What should we do?

2009-09-30 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
Maybe I'm missing something but wouldn't it be best to ask the authors of Pari what the purpose of these lines are? I also feel like making a change we don't understand at all (at least I don't) could be bad. If we cannot for some reason then I like Dave's idea of running tests of a build with th

[sage-devel] Re: pydstool

2009-09-24 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
an update whenever I get around to making a patch. On Sep 24, 6:20 pm, "brandon.bar...@gmail.com" wrote: > I'd like to put together an spkg for pydstool - would this be a useful > package for sage's core > distribution?http://www.cam

[sage-devel] pydstool

2009-09-24 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
I'd like to put together an spkg for pydstool - would this be a useful package for sage's core distribution? http://www.cam.cornell.edu/~rclewley/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscri

[sage-devel] Re: "algebra mathematic web app"

2009-09-08 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
It seems impossible to cover all sage functionality with menus, but they could be helpful when dealing with symbols. How about popout windows that contain menus? Users could even make their own menus and call them up as they wished, without effecting the overall notebook GUI. Units could be usef

[sage-devel] Re: Setting up a machine with first release of Solaris 10

2009-08-30 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
On Aug 29, 12:21 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > William Stein wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:25 AM, > > Juanjo wrote: > >> On Aug 28, 3:01 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" > >> wrote: > >>> Using the first release of Solaris 10 should iron out any other > >>> portability issues, since perhaps ou

[sage-devel] Re: Setting up a machine with first release of Solaris 10

2009-08-28 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
> > You also mentioned that the setup in this machine would be > > intentionally less polished (i.e. GNU make is not default, and other > > things you set up for T2). Would it be possible to evolve the T2 setup > > towards something more out-of-the-box? Or is it unrealistic to build > > all Sage

[sage-devel] Re: What do we do about the Maxima / ecl / Solaris issues?

2009-08-05 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
/usr/local/lib/libmpfr.* /usr/local/lib/libmpfr.a /usr/local/lib/libmpfr.so/usr/local/lib/ libmpfr.so.1.2.0 /usr/local/lib/libmpfr.la /usr/local/lib/libmpfr.so.1 On Aug 5, 2:14 pm, "brandon.bar...@gmail.com" wrote: > I did try setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH but this resulted i

[sage-devel] Re: What do we do about the Maxima / ecl / Solaris issues?

2009-08-05 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
If I rebuild gcc with this, this linking configuration ... Could you post your gcc configuration (gcc -v) that you use on your SXCE machine whenever you have a chance to? Thanks, On Aug 5, 12:12 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > brandon.bar...@gmail.com wrote: > > Actually this s

[sage-devel] Re: What do we do about the Maxima / ecl / Solaris issues?

2009-08-04 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
Actually this seems to be an issue with it trying to link to the system mpfr. Shouldn't sage built its own mpfr? On Aug 4, 9:01 pm, "brandon.bar...@gmail.com" wrote: > Well, I didn't have any trouble with MPIR in 4.1.1.rc0! > > bash-3.2$ ls

[sage-devel] Re: What do we do about the Maxima / ecl / Solaris issues?

2009-08-04 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
.p0/src' ERROR building termcap On Aug 4, 8:45 pm, "brandon.bar...@gmail.com" wrote: > I think my current gcc toolchain may be doomed, as it uses the sun > linker and the gnu assembler! (I read this was a good thing to do, at > least at some point in history). > >

[sage-devel] Re: What do we do about the Maxima / ecl / Solaris issues?

2009-08-04 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
lding MPIR on OpenSolaris due to the linker problems you noted on the wiki; if you can get mpir to use a correct version of libtool (the one in /usr/bin worked) this problem disappears. On Aug 3, 8:29 pm, David Kirkby wrote: > 2009/8/3 brandon.bar...@gmail.com : > > > > > I look

[sage-devel] Re: What do we do about the Maxima / ecl / Solaris issues?

2009-08-03 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
I look forward to testing and building it on opensolaris / intel. On Aug 3, 4:21 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > Robert Dodier wrote: > > On Aug 3, 8:56 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > > >> So we can expect 5.19 sometime in August, is that correct? Any rough > >> idea when it might be - first

[sage-devel] Re: barriers to community growth

2009-07-29 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
Interesting to know. I've only been using Solaris for a little over a year, and I've been more familiar with blastwave.org and the new opensolaris source juicer repository ( jucr.opensolaris.org ). I think it would be more useful to distribute sage for solaris as a zone with a preconfigured (whi

[sage-devel] Re: status of FreeBSD 64-bit support

2009-07-29 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
I had a different issue with mpir on opensolaris, basically it wasn't using a libtool that would work. This was completely fixed by copying /usr/bin/libtool to /export/home/ brandon/sage-4.0.2/spkg/build/mpir-1.2.p4/src I tried to edit the spkg install file to take this into account but I didn'

[sage-devel] Building of Sage 4.1 (ECL) on CentOS 5.3 failure

2009-07-25 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
This error message is a bit unusual to me. I'm trying to build it in a solaris lx zone (apparently modern distros aren't supported yet - centos 5.3 is as close as it gets that I know of): from install.log: cp /home/brandon/sage-4.1/spkg/build/ecl-9.4.1/src/src/../contrib/ unicode/ucd.dat . if [

[sage-devel] notebook() hangs in SXCE and OpenSolaris

2009-05-03 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
Hello, I'm very happy about the improved Solaris support. Until recently I was running sage in a linux zone on my workstation, but unfortunately modern linux version support for branded zones is lagging. I confess I've also been using sagenb.org a bit (which will be running on a T2000 soon?) I