Hi, One more thing about Solaris: The game plan of the Solaris port has slightly changed. The initial port will be Solaris 10 and no longer Solaris 9. The compiler I will use is Sun Fort 12 [or whatever cc 5.9 corresponds to]. The main reason is that the header situation with Sun's compiler is much better and building even Python with Sun's compiler in 64 bit mode is fairly trivial while doing so with gcc is a huge pain when you actually want to use stuff like the md5 module. Additionally in most cases many installs have crap in /usr/local and that really, really produces a lot of problems with gcc, while it seems that with Sun's cc and CC I have much tighter control over that issue.
On top of that dealing with the 32 vs. 64 bit issue on Solaris [multilib is a really, really dumb idea, especially if you default to 32 bit on as 64 bit platform - but I could bitch about that for hours, so I will spare you the details] is something that seems to be less of a problem with Sun's tool chain. Apple's decision to do the exact same kind of move doesn't bode to well, but at least they have universal binaries/library support to lessen that blow. Oh well, porting sucks ;) Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
