[sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-04 Thread Jaap Spies
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: As you stated before many spkgs are not in a good shape to handle this. Jaap I've raised tickets for some of these simple spkg-install fixes. opencdk http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7817 freetype:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-04 Thread David Kirkby
2010/1/4 Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: As you stated before many spkgs are not in a good shape to handle this. Jaap I've raised tickets for some of these simple spkg-install fixes. opencdk http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7817

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jaap Spies wrote: As you stated before many spkgs are not in a good shape to handle this. I'm surprised I got so far j...@opensolaris:~/Downloads/sage-4.3$ ls spkg/installed bzip2-1.0.5 gnutils-2.2.1.p4 libpng-1.2.35 readline-6.0.p1 termcap-1.3.1.p0 cliquer-1.2.p2

[sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-02 Thread Jaap Spies
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap I've raised tickets for some of these simple spkg-install fixes. opencdk http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7817 freetype: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7138 flint http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7815 ecllib:

[sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-01 Thread Jaap Spies
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Hi, First I installed Solaris 5.11 from an oldish CD Solaris Express Developer Edition. This looked ok, but is useless because there is no support as this is superseded by Open Solaris. Next I downloaded Open Solaris 2009/06 x86. Works like a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jaap Spies wrote: Hi Dave, Hi Jaap I tried to build gcc-4.4.2 from source, but failed. Got gcc-4.3.2 from the repo. Put gcc and friends in a directory $HOME/bin, changed my .bashrc so my path is GCC can be difficult to build on Solaris.

[sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-01 Thread Jaap Spies
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Hi Dave, Hi Jaap I tried to build gcc-4.4.2 from source, but failed. Got gcc-4.3.2 from the repo. Put gcc and friends in a directory $HOME/bin, changed my .bashrc so my path is GCC can be difficult to build on Solaris. I now have:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jaap Spies wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Hi, First I installed Solaris 5.11 from an oldish CD Solaris Express Developer Edition. This looked ok, but is useless because there is no support as this is superseded by Open Solaris. Next I downloaded Open Solaris 2009/06 x86. Works like a charm.

[sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-01 Thread Jaap Spies
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Hi, First I installed Solaris 5.11 from an oldish CD Solaris Express Developer Edition. This looked ok, but is useless because there is no support as this is superseded by Open Solaris. Next I downloaded Open Solaris 2009/06

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jaap Spies wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Hi Dave, Hi Jaap I tried to build gcc-4.4.2 from source, but failed. Got gcc-4.3.2 from the repo. Put gcc and friends in a directory $HOME/bin, changed my .bashrc so my path is GCC can be difficult to build on Solaris. I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jaap Spies wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I've not used VirtualBox much, but what I have seen of it, I am very impressed. I mainly use it to connect to the internet to play chess, as the Windows software is better than any of the other stuff at the minute. e2-e4 :-) Jaap I've

[sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-01 Thread Jaap Spies
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I now have: j...@opensolaris:~/Downloads/build-gcc-4.4.2$ /usr/local/gcc-4.4.2/bin/gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i386-pc-solaris2.11 Configured with: ../gcc-4.4.2/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-4.4.2

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2010-01-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jaap Spies wrote: You mentioned gcc-4.4.2 on the wikipage on Solaris. But is you have a better suggestion? The truth is I do not know what is best. There appears to be some issues with 4.2 perhaps 4.3 series if the Sun assembler is used. A google on the error messages suggested using the GNU

[sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2009-12-29 Thread Jaap Spies
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Hi, First I installed Solaris 5.11 from an oldish CD Solaris Express Developer Edition. This looked ok, but is useless because there is no support as this is superseded by Open Solaris. Next I downloaded Open Solaris 2009/06 x86. Works like a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2009-12-29 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jaap Spies wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Hi Jaap, it's really pleased me to someone have a go at Sage on Open Solaris. Sometimes I feel I'm the only one working on the Solaris build. Ok, Open Solaris I'll focus on. Great !! As stated at http://wiki.sagemath.org/solaris Open

[sage-devel] Re: Solaris in VirtualBox

2009-12-29 Thread Jaap Spies
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Jaap Spies wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Hi Jaap, it's really pleased me to someone have a go at Sage on Open Solaris. Sometimes I feel I'm the only one working on the Solaris build. Ok, Open Solaris I'll focus on. Great !! As stated at