[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-28 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:27 PM, ahmet alper parker wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Ticket #6580 [1] is meant to have ratpoints build with GCC 3.4.x. The >>> Sage build farm u

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-28 Thread ahmet alper parker
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Ticket #6580 [1] is meant to have ratpoints build with GCC 3.4.x. The >> Sage build farm uses GCC >= 4.0.1 and ticket #7021 [2] has the updated >> package prereq-

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-28 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Dr. David Kirkby >> wrote: >>> William Stein wrote: >>> > Just to add that even the very latest release of Solaris (Solaris 10 > update 7) on SPARC only ships with gcc 3.

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >> Just to add that even the very latest release of Solaris (Solaris 10 update 7) on SPARC only ships with gcc 3.4.3. Users using SPARC hardware are unlikely to have root acc

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-27 Thread Bill Hart
No FLINT only requires C99, so 3.4.3 is fine I believe. I think FLINT 2 will drop the C99 requirement as it is a damned pain in the neck, as MSVC is no C99 compliant. Probably by the time I get FLINT 2 release they'll release MSVC 2010 and spring C99 compliance on us, only 11 years after the stan

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-27 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > >>> Just to add that even the very latest release of Solaris (Solaris 10 >>> update 7) on SPARC only ships with gcc 3.4.3. Users using  SPARC >>> hardware are  unlikely to have root access as it tends not to be us

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: >> Just to add that even the very latest release of Solaris (Solaris 10 >> update 7) on SPARC only ships with gcc 3.4.3. Users using SPARC >> hardware are unlikely to have root access as it tends not to be used by >> home users too much (yours truly is a bit of an exception

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-27 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > >> FOR supporting 3.4.x: >> >>   [ ] It probably would be easy at this point, since it just means >> fixing ratpoints. >> >>   [ ] This reminds me of when w

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Minh Nguyen wrote: > The packages you have updated so far all contain a similar set of > tests at the start of the file spkg-install. To me, those tests look > very much like a template to be used for perhaps all the other spkg's. > It would be very beneficial to package maintainers if those boil

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-27 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > The fact is the Sun linker seems better than the GNU one. The problem is > that some code sends GNU-specific options to the Sun linker, which > fails. However, I believe I have sorted all them out in Sage as long as > gcc i

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Carlo Hamalainen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: >>> However, I thought someone said once that Flint also needed a 4.x >> I don't know about that. Better check with Bill Hart on the minimum >> version of GCC for compiling FLINT. > > I was able to compile gcc 4.2.4 on

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-27 Thread Carlo Hamalainen
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: >> However, I thought someone said once that Flint also needed a 4.x > > I don't know about that. Better check with Bill Hart on the minimum > version of GCC for compiling FLINT. I was able to compile gcc 4.2.4 on Solaris 10 x86 but had no luck

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-27 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Just to add that even the very latest release of Solaris (Solaris 10 > update 7) on SPARC only ships with gcc 3.4.3. Users using SPARC > hardware are unlikely to have root access as it tends not to be used by > home users

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > FOR supporting 3.4.x: > > [ ] It probably would be easy at this point, since it just means > fixing ratpoints. > > [ ] This reminds me of when we dumped support for Cygwin in 2007. > In retrospect allowing that w

[sage-devel] Re: do we want to support GCC 3.4.x?

2009-09-27 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Ticket #6580 [1] is meant to have ratpoints build with GCC 3.4.x. The > Sage build farm uses GCC >= 4.0.1 and ticket #7021 [2] has the updated > package prereq-0.4 which checks that the target platform has GCC >= > 4.0.1. With