Hi, On 5 Aug., 11:59, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > I want to change the file prereq-0.3/configure.ac to make a new > prereq-0.4/configure script, as currently the configure script does a > few things I think are wrong. > > 1) If CC is set to a non-GNU compiler, the configure scripts tests the > version of gcc and says the GNU compiler is too old. I know currently > we only support gcc, but ultimately we hope to support the Sun > compiler. This configure script will l break such an attempt > immediately. > > My proposale is to change configure.ac, so the configure script issues > a warning other compilers are unsupported, but does not attempt to > test their versions - it just tries to use whatever compilers are > specified with CC, CXX and SAGE_FORTRAN one has tried to use, after > the warning has been issued. > > Is this a reasonable thing to do? > > 2) The configure script does a very simple test for the version of > gcc, and rejects it if its less than 3. It then issues a message > "please upgrade to gcc 3.x or 4.x" > > The README says Sage builds with "GCC >= 3.x and GCC >= 4.1.x." > > Somewhere I read Sage will not build with gcc < 3.3. > > Also, the configure script will currently accept gcc 4.0.0, 4.0.1, yet > they are known to be buggy. > > I suggest the configure script is updated to accept gcc's in the ranges > > 3.3.0 <= $version <= 3.4.6 (3.4.6 was the last of the 3.x releases) > $version >= 4.1 >
on Mac OS X 10.4, we are forced to use gcc 4.0.1 (as comes with "XCode 2.5", the latest development environment available for OS X 10.4 from Apple). Fortunately, the gcc version 4.0.1 (from Apple) "build 5370" works fine. Cheers, Georg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
