On Jun 6, 8:31 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 6, 7:00 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Great, I copied your revised ntl package from your home directory (on
> > > my Sun Ultra 60 called 'main-webserver') and it works ok, on both that
> > > Sun and also on my Blade 2000 (kestrel) - no great surprise there, as
> > > the two Suns are running very similar setups.
>
> > Good.
>
> The Solaris port does seem to be coming on, which is good. The ntl fix
> from Francois seems to work on both my SPARCs. I do have another
> problem, but that needs to be on another subject, not this one.
Thanks for testing ;)
> Hopefully, when you get Sage to the point it is working for a few
> Solaris machines, I could ask on comp.unix.solaris if anyone else will
> try to compile it. Chances are, someone on there will get a problem or
> three, since no two people are likely to have exactly the same setup.
Yes, that is definitely desired. The game plan is definitely to make
it work on the Solaris 10 boxen on SageNet since those nice people are
paying me to do the port. One problem with gcc and Solaris in general
is the lack of a working complex.h, so that needs to be resolved.
Another one is that on Solaris x86 [and x86-64] Sympow does not work
since it requires the FPU mode to be "low precision" and as it that
code does not work correctly. Since quaddouble works that should be
fixable.
> Dave
But the medium term plan is to switch to the Sun Forte compiler and I
have no intention to ever even put substantial time to make the 64 bit
port work with gcc. I have had to deal with too much crap with gcc in
64 bit mode on Solaris to even pursuit that, but patches and fixes are
obviously welcome. Since the Sun compiler is free as in beer I don't
think that is too much of a problem. Should Sun decide to do something
stupid and force people to pay for their compilers again we will
revisit gcc in 64 bit mode on Solaris again.
Cheers,
Michael
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