Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Jaap Spies wrote: >> Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >>> Hi Jaap, >>> >>> it's really pleased me to someone have a go at Sage on Open Solaris. >>> Sometimes I >>> feel I'm the only one working on the Solaris build. >>> >> >> Ok, Open Solaris I'll focus on. > > Great !! > >>> As stated at >>> >>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/solaris >>> >>> Open Solaris does not build. There are several issues I am aware. I'd >>> suggest >>> the following approach might be worth taking, but there may be better ones. >>> You >>> need to get at least the following >>> >>> * A recent gcc >>> * GNU make >>> * GNU binutils >>> * OpenSSL libraries. >>> >> >> My gcc is too old >> >> j...@opensolaris:~/Downloads/sage-4.3$ make --version >> GNU Make 3.81 > > >> Is the make mentioned above too old? > > No, that will be fine. You will need to have GNU make and GNU tar in your > path > before the Sun versions. There should be a GNU tar at /usr/gnu/bin/tar >
I have both: j...@opensolaris:~/Downloads/sage-4.3$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.17 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. > I tend to create a directory $HOME/bins-for-sage and still things in there > that > must be found first. > Good idea. I used to have my $HOME/bin directory first. > You will need to have the Sun linker (/usr/ucb/bin/ld) in your path before the > gnu linker, but the version of make in /usr/ucb/bin is the Sun make. So one > can > get a bit of a problem. I find it easier to make a directory to have the most > important thing in, then put that at the front of my path. But no doubt there > are many ways to solve the problems. > >> Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try. >> >> Jaap > > You are very welcome. > > Thanks, Jaap > -- 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
