Michelle Callaghan - Sun Microsystems wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Sorry for crashing your thread, but I was just searching around to see > if anyone was running Sage on Solaris and I came upon your dicussions, > I just wondered if there is a specific customer requirement that you > know of for Sage on Sun as we would love to work with Sage, if there > is a need for this. > > If there is anything I can do to help let me know and I will see what > I can do. > > Cheers > Michelle
Hi, I'm one of the people working on the port of Sage to Sun's Solaris. I'm mainly working on SPARC, but intend doing likewise on x86. Sage does run, but building it is not straightforward. A Sun T5240 was donated by Sun to the Sage project. That is now running Solaris 10 update 7. We wish to produce binaries which will run on any Solaris 10 release, so we should build them on a machine running the first release of Solaris 10 (03/2005 if I recall correctly). If you are aware of any way we can get access to such a machine, it would be useful. I had suggested to William Stein that he purchase an older machine (the T5240 is not supported on the first release of Solaris 10), but he has issues with rack space, cooling and power, so it is not even possible to get a small 1U machine. I have some older SPARCs at home, but don't really have the bandwidth to make creating huge binaries and uploading them. I also have issues with power and cooling, in that the power costs come directly from my own pocket! If you are aware of anyone who has some spare time, and would like to help on the project, we could do with more Solaris developers. Currently we have only build Sage as 32-bit on gcc. We intend ultimately to create a 64-bit version with the Sun compiler, but there are several issues of GNUisms, which mean Sage will not build with Sun's compiler. I am sorting some of those out. In the latest alpha release, some of the changes were: #6759: David Kirkby: Update sqlite to latest release - needed for Sun's compiler [Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen] #6609: David Kirkby: GNUism in lcalc-20080205.p2 passing GNU flags directly to the Sun assembler. [Reviewed by Minh Van Nguyen] 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
