Hi, Does anybody reading this message use gfan in Sage? Maybe gfan shouldn't be included in Sage. I would be OK with removing it if there isn't any support for it. That it never gets updated is suggestive.
William On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > I note that gfan hard-codes the compiler names gcc/g++. Trying to fix that, I > soon discovered the Sun compiler thinks there is an error in the code, with > something supposed to return a value, but not doing so. > > gfan-0.3.p6/patches/ > gfan-0.3.p6/patches/Makefile > Finished extraction > **************************************************** > Host system > uname -a: > SunOS hawk 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc > **************************************************** > **************************************************** > CC Version > /opt/sunstudio12.1/bin/cc -v > usage: cc [ options] files. Use 'cc -flags' for details > **************************************************** > Copying a more portable Makefile, which has less GNUisms. > /opt/sunstudio12.1/bin/CC -m64 -library=stlport4 > -I/export/home/drkirkby/cc/sage-4.3.1.alpha0/local/include -O2 -DGMPRATIONAL > -m64 -c lp_cdd.cpp > "field.h", line 108: Error: "FieldElementImplementation::operator=(const > Field&)" is expected to return a value. > "printer.h", line 24: Warning: f hides Printer::f. > 1 Error(s) and 1 Warning(s) detected. > make: *** [lp_cdd.o] Error 1 > Error building gfan > > I'm not a C++ programmer, so don't know if this is right or not. > > However, I did not from > > http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~jensen/software/gfan/gfan.html > > that the version in Sage was released in 2007 and that there was a new release > less than 3 months ago. > > It would be good if this could be updated, so that is respects the values of > CC, > CXX, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS. > > > Then it would have some hope of building with Sun's compiler. If not, any > problems can be reported upstream. But I'm not overkeen to report bugs about a > version more than 2 years old. > > 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 > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
