On Dec 27, 2007 12:31 AM, mabshoff
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>
> <SNIP>
>
> > I just tested and Sage prints a message informing the user that it
> > isn't supported, but then goes on happily :)
> >
> > While I am trying to compile Sage 2.9.1.1 on Cygwin I ran into the
> > same problem and the quite old binutils in Cygwin (2006/08) throw some
> > kind of assertion. I am compiling binutils 2.18 as I type this to see
> > if that solves the issue.
>
> It isn't a binutils issue since updating to binutils 2.18 didn't fix
> the problem. We must have patched the original source of the gmp in
> the spkg somehow,
Wait -- are you saying we patched
gmp-4.2.1/src/
I hope not!? The only patching of the src directory should be done
by spkg-install. If it isn't that is very very bad.
> I build 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 from vanilla sources on
> cygwin and both of them work. I would suggest that we investigate this
> once we update to gmp 4.2.2.
Yes, definitely. We may as well upgrade to gmp-4.2.2 if possible
soon. I just upgraded the pari spkg to 2.3.3:
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1603
so it's your turn to upgrade something :-)
William
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