[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-25 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Robert Bradshawrober...@math.washington.edu wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:  From the top README.txt --- NOT SUPPORTED:       * FreeBSD       * Arch Linux       * Gentoo

[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-25 Thread peterjeremy
On 2009-Jun-24 00:56:38 +0100, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: Would it not be sensible to ask around on some FreeBSD/NetBSD mailing lists etc, and see if one could drum up enough support to start a port? I've done some work on getting Sage to work on FreeBSD but there is still

[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-25 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:17 AM, peterjer...@optushome.com.au wrote: On 2009-Jun-24 00:56:38 +0100, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: Would it not be sensible to ask around on some FreeBSD/NetBSD mailing lists etc, and see if one could drum up enough support to start a port?

[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jun-25 09:09:02 +0200, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: The main problems with building Sage on BSD, in my experience, are that (1) you have to gmake instead of make to run the GNU version of Make, which is a pain, My approach to this was to symlink gmake to $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/make

[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-25 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Peter Jeremypeterjer...@optushome.com.au wrote: On 2009-Jun-25 09:09:02 +0200, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: The main problems with building Sage on BSD, in my experience, are that (1) you have to gmake instead of make to run the GNU version of Make,

[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 23, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: From the top README.txt --- NOT SUPPORTED: * FreeBSD * Arch Linux * Gentoo Linux * Microsoft Windows (via Visual Studio C++) * Microsoft Windows (via