Peter Jeremy wrote: > Given all the recent work on the Solaris port (kudos to David for > that), I'm sorry to say that the FreeBSD port hasn't gone anywhere for > the past 6 weeks or so. > > I've just uploaded my latest patches (for 4.1.1) into the Wiki > (http://wiki.sagemath.org/freebsd/sage-4.1) so they don't get lost. > > The current major stumbling block is the lack of C99 complex maths > functions in FreeBSD and I hope to find some time in the next few > weeks to produce and test at least simplistic implementations for > the functions that Sage needs. >
I guess it would be good if you could get some help. Perhaps you know some mailing lists or newsgroups where FreeBSD people hang out. There is a mailing list called 'time-nuts'. A lot of the people on there are serious scientists, doing heavy maths. There is some reason they often use FreeBSD - something about how it handles time keeping better than other operating systems. I know one of the people on there is a serious FreeBSD developer. I could ask on there if you wanted - or you could ask yourself. I know a few of the people on there. (I had once planned to build a unit which would give my 1830's pendulum clock, the accuracy of a rubidium clock. Never got around to it though. The basic idea is to generate a magnetic field at the actual frequency needed for the pendulum clock to keep very good time. With a small magnet on the pendulum, the pendulum will eventually sync to the electronic clock. But somehow I lost interest. It's a nice clock, but I wish it had the accuracy of a modern quartz clock. The rubidium would have made it much better. There are tons of people on the time-nuts list with cesium clocks, and one guy with a hydrogen maser. I gather at some point in time (pun intended), the second will be redefined in terms of oscillations on hydrogen, as it is more stable than cesium). But seriously, it is a possible place to ask for some help. You might find some have functions for the sort of thing you are looking for. I'm going to ask on the Solaris newsgroups for some help in porting to Sun Studio. It will be somewhat easier for people to start on that, once a version builds with gcc easily. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
