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

2010-02-15 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 15, 7:02 am, 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 iconv,

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

2010-02-15 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Dave, Did you check that Cygwin does not have its own iconv patches? It used to have patches... Dmitrii On Feb 15, 5:02 am, 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

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

2010-02-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
kcrisman wrote: One could then update the R spkg for adding iconv support. There is currently a ticket with a .p0 spkg for R adding Mac graphics support (removing the no-aqua options) and some other graphics-related stuff which is on hold for some other stuff, but it would instead make sense

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

2010-02-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dima Pasechnik wrote: Dave, Did you check that Cygwin does not have its own iconv patches? It used to have patches... Dmitrii I've not specifically checked Cygwin myself, but this ticket, created by Mike Hansen 4 months ago: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7319 (gdmodule requires

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

2010-02-15 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 15, 9:26 am, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: kcrisman wrote: One could then update the R spkg for adding iconv support.  There is currently a ticket with a .p0 spkg for R adding Mac graphics support (removing the no-aqua options) and some other graphics-related

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

2010-02-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
kcrisman wrote: On Feb 15, 9:26 am, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: kcrisman wrote: One could then update the R spkg for adding iconv support. There is currently a ticket with a .p0 spkg for R adding Mac graphics support (removing the no-aqua options) and some other

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

2010-02-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
kcrisman wrote: R's spkg-install needs an overhaul, as noted in my previous email (which It seems to have invalid options, invalid comments, and various other issues. It would appear we could potentially get better performance too, at the cost of installing other libraries. If you could point

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

2010-02-15 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 15, 12:23 pm, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: kcrisman wrote: R's spkg-install needs an overhaul, as noted in my previous email (which   It seems to have invalid options, invalid comments, and various other issues. It would appear we could potentially get

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

2010-02-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
kcrisman wrote: On Feb 15, 12:23 pm, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: kcrisman wrote: R's spkg-install needs an overhaul, as noted in my previous email (which It seems to have invalid options, invalid comments, and various other issues. It would appear we could potentially get