I'm CCing this to mpir-devel and we will add a ticket to trac for noting this in the manual, if it isn't already in there.
Bill. On 31 Aug, 17:37, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
