On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > On Jan 4, 10:58 pm, "William Stein" <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:52 PM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > <SNIP> > >> >> I.e., for Sage we build only the static readline. Can't Python, Gap, >> >> PARI, etc. just link in a static readline? >> >> > Well, I tried that and I ended up with a Python without readline >> > support and Singular failed to build at all without it. These were >> >> That makes sense. OK, so that won't work. > > Yes, that trick was my first idea. > >> > Other than that if we get it to work I would be fine with that >> > solution since we so rarely update readline that it won't matter if we >> > link static or dynamic libs in this case. >> >> Here's another suggestion. Did you try this? Just use the >> system-wide readline >> with the system-wide devel library, and we don't build ours at all in >> the case of opensuse. We could make the build terminate at the start >> if readline isn't available on opensuse, and document this requirement >> in the README as well. > > Yes, but this is a pain and something I would rather not do in 3.2.3. > And sooner or later we have to start working around that problem on > other distributions, so I would prefer something clean for now. > > What we could do is to add a special check in readline.spkg that > copies over the readline.so from the system after building readline on > OpenSUSE 11.1 for now. The chance of this introducing trouble is slime > since it is very close release wise and readline development seems to > only happen at a glacial pace anyway.
I am happy with this solution. If you post(ed) a modified spkg I'll give it a positive review. I just think we should do something for 3.2.3 since Suse is officially supported by Sage. William > >> Well, my question is first: does this work? > > I would prefer to solve it another way, but it would work. > >> -- William > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
