I just tried to build Sage (part of which is MPIR) on a Sun Ultra 80
SPARC) machine I set up for testing Sage on the first release of Solaris
10.
$ cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 3/05 s10_74L2a SPARC
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 22 January 2005
$ uname -a
SunOS goose 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80
One issue I hit is with mpir.
libtool: link: `/usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.la' is not a valid libtool archive
sure enough, a look at the file
$ ls -l /usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.la
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 0 Jan 8 2005
/usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.la
$ file /usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.la
/usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.la: empty file
$
shows it is empty.
A Google finds others have the issue too:
"General Solaris 10 Discussion - libstdc++.la empty"
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5073150
Hence it is worth noting this in the MPIR documentation if it is not
already done so. (Since this version of gcc is older than officially
supported by Sage, it is not really an issue in Sage as such).
It appears this was fixed in Solaris patch 123647-01 (August 2006),
though the latest version of that patch is 123647-03.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-123647-03-1
which is dated Mon Aug 17th 2009.
Note one would need to be root to install this, though one could
probably get around that by building ones own gcc.
Dave
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