There is a bit of a catch-22 with polybori and mpfr on 't2' which I believe makes a need for
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6438 to be incorporated in 4.1.1, so it needs a reviewer, despite the fact I agree it is not the easiest patch to review. It is complicated by the facts that * I only wanted to apply the patch on machines with the sun4v architecture, to keep maximum performance on other Solaris machines. * I wanted to be able to override the default. Anyway, the catch-22 is this. 1) MPFR will not pass tests on 't2' unless a gcc no newer than 4.2.4 is used. So it will fail if the latest (gcc 4.4.0) is used. Patch http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6438 will allow all mpfr tests to pass on 't2' with any gcc version I have tried. 2) Polybori will build with gcc 4.4.0 on SPARC but not with gcc 4.2.4. (To get it to build on SPARC, one must not have the Sun tools in the patch). Alexander Dreyer is looking at several polibori issues. From what I gather, polybori uses SCons which is a tool that is supposed to make building easier, though I have never personally used SCons. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
