I have been building LiDIA regularly over the years but not in the last few months so (in particular) not with the latest gcc. I have remained on the LiDIA mailing list though (which has been extremely quiet for a long time) and know that people have been putting in the patches necessary to make it build with current gcc. I'll look those up and report back.
About GPL-ing LiDIA, I will ask too since I was at one time listed as a member of the LiDIA group, and know Buchmann reasonably well, they/he might be cooperative! John On 9/4/07, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I looked at the LiDIA list. Christoff continues to promise the new > version is coming, this time before he goes on vacation. > > Apparently the compile problems are to do with the new gcc. Some kind > person has posted the changes they made to get it working at length on > the LiDIA list. > > I'll see if I can get it going and post timings for that too. I > anticipate that all the different layers in LiDIA will make the class > number code quite slow despite the algorithm being quite good. I will > eventually code it from scratch myself, since this problem interests > me greatly and fits in well with the quadratic sieve I've been > writing. But obviously that's not going to happen overnight. > > Bill. > > On 3 Sep, 22:00, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/3/07, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I tried to build LiDIA so I could do some timings. But it just doesn't > > > build. It's a standard Opteron machine with G++ and GMP on it. I'm > > > just doing a standard build, but it complains in ring_matrix.h that > > > some function is missing. > > > > The last time I built LiDIA was maybe 1999, and it wasn't too hard, though > > it took a long time. Justin Walker used to also frequently build LiDIA back > > then. > > > > One issue with LiDIA is that I think -- and correct me if I'm wrong -- that > > it still officially has a non-GPL compatible license. There was a mailing > > list post from somebody several months ago that they > > would GPL LiDIA, but I don't know if that person actually owned the > > copyright, > > or if the university would allow it, or if anything actually came of it. > > If not, it would be great is somebody who remembers could track this > > down or email again to bug them. > > > > Having some benchmarks comparing PARI and Magma will be really useful. > > But for now I'm mainly worried about even having some part of the > > *functionality* > > of Magma in algebraic number theory, since presently we are even way way > > behind there. > > > > -- > > William Stein > > Associate Professor of Mathematics > > University of Washingtonhttp://www.williamstein.org > > > > > -- John Cremona --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
