On 05/12/2007, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2007 7:51 AM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm sure that can be done, and in fact I have suggested it myself. > > The cremona.spkg contains everything that mwrank.spkg did. So whoever > > put mwrank into Sage > > That would be me when I visited you for a day in Nottingham > 2 years ago. > You were very helpful then :-) > > > could make some small changes and get mwrank to > > do the same. The executables files (e.g. the mwrank stand-alone > > program) should still be built; when it somes to linking, all you > > need to know is that the mwrank version was flattened producing only > > one lib*.a, while the cremona version keeps my original division into > > 4 (interdependent) libraries. > > > > I don't have the technical expertise to do this myself! I was not > > involved in the origina mwrank packaging and wrapping (and did not > > acquire the necessary knowho at SD6 either). But I am happy to answer > > questions from anyone who is going to do it. > > Michael A. or I will do it. I haven't yet only due to teaching, > grant-writing, > etc. The quarter ends here soon though so I will have time. > > And please don't make us take cremona*.spkg out of Sage. It is to me > the most exciting edition to Sage in a very long time!
Thanks, but as I'm spending a long time trying to track down memory leaks in the one part of the code I didn't write myself (and which use a lot of low level bit arrays and pointers) I have not got time to actually do any programming which might produce some interesting new mathematical results (such as modular symbols from ellitpic curves)! I am not prepared to build gcc-4.3 from scratch, so until it gets put into kubuntu I just will not support anything laterer than gcc-4.2 for any of my C++ code. Michael A, valgrind is driving me crazy. I am sure that it is telling me *wrongly* that I am using some uninitialized memory. But despite all the voluminous output, it doesn't seem to actually tell me the address which is aparently uninitialized! If there is a command-line option which will give me that, please tell me. I *have* read the man page. Many years ago I decided that I would only ever give people binaries of my programs since I did not want to spend my life fixing compiler errors which would arise on other people's compilers. Then I started to make exceptions for a few trusted people who I knew would not bug me (e.g. William). Before I knew it I was distributing source code packages -- as we now all do in the name of open-ness -- and exactly as predicted, I am spending more time fixing stupid minor boring things instead of implementing something new and interesting. It's a one way street, and I know I cannot go back, but I am beginning to be nostalgic for the days when I just wrote programs for myself.... John > > William > > > > -- 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
