Re: [sage-devel] New package 'iconv' needed for Solaris and Cygwin

2010-02-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Dr. David Kirkby OK, I've created the package, updated spkg/install and spkg/standard/deps. All I need to do now is resolve the issue of whether I should have a spkg-check, or whether the check for SAGE_CHECK can be put in spkg-install.

Re: [sage-devel] New package 'iconv' needed for Solaris and Cygwin

2010-02-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: The latest release of R in Sage will not build without iconv on Solaris. The option to disable the use of iconv, which was previously done in spkg-install, no longer functions. R *needs* iconv,

Re: [sage-devel] New package 'iconv' needed for Solaris and Cygwin

2010-02-14 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: William Stein wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: The latest release of R in Sage will not build without iconv on Solaris. The option to disable the use of

[sage-devel] New package 'iconv' needed for Solaris and Cygwin

2010-02-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
The latest release of R in Sage will not build without iconv on Solaris. The option to disable the use of iconv, which was previously done in spkg-install, no longer functions. R *needs* iconv, and the one in Solaris is not suitable. Hence I propose that iconv is made a standard package. I've

Re: [sage-devel] New package 'iconv' needed for Solaris and Cygwin

2010-02-13 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: The latest release of R in Sage will not build without iconv on Solaris. The option to disable the use of iconv, which was previously done in spkg-install, no longer functions. R *needs* iconv, and the one in