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

2009-10-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Dr. David Kirkby >> Dave >> >> If you have $50 spare in your grants, perhaps offer $50 prize to anyone >> that can find the *real* cause! That might drum up a bit more interest >> in solving a problem on a platform which most people do not u

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

2009-10-01 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 Oct, 09:49, David Kirkby wrote: > 2009/10/1 John Cremona : > > > > > GAP is a package we use for group theory (and more perhaps);  it > > stands for something like "Groups, Algebra and Programming". > > > gp is the name of the interactive version of the pari library, for > > example it's w

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

2009-10-01 Thread David Kirkby
2009/10/1 John Cremona : > > GAP is a package we use for group theory (and more perhaps);  it > stands for something like "Groups, Algebra and Programming". > > gp is the name of the interactive version of the pari library, for > example it's what runs when you type "sage -gp" at the command line.

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

2009-10-01 Thread John Cremona
GAP is a package we use for group theory (and more perhaps); it stands for something like "Groups, Algebra and Programming". gp is the name of the interactive version of the pari library, for example it's what runs when you type "sage -gp" at the command line. These are two completely different

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

2009-09-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Dr. David Kirkby >>> wrote: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6579 documents a problem which will occur if one tries to build Sage usi

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

2009-09-30 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Dr. David Kirkby >> wrote: >>> http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6579 >>> >>> documents a problem which will occur if one tries to build Sage using >>> gcc on 't2', or any ot

[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: The one remaining issue which stops Sage building on Solaris. What should we do?

2009-09-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: >> http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6579 >> >> documents a problem which will occur if one tries to build Sage using >> gcc on 't2', or any other Solaris box I have tried on. One has to >> manually comment out

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

2009-09-30 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6579 > > documents a problem which will occur if one tries to build Sage using > gcc on 't2', or any other Solaris box I have tried on. One has to > manually comment out lines 258, 259 and 428 of th

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

2009-09-30 Thread John Cremona
2009/9/30 Dr. David Kirkby : > > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6579 > > documents a problem which will occur if one tries to build Sage using > gcc on 't2', or any other Solaris box I have tried on. One has to > manually comment out lines 258, 259 and 428 of the file > $SAGE_HOME/local/incl