Building Sage on Open Solaris is presenting some difficulties due to a failure
of the hashlib module to install easily.
On Solaris 10 (SPARC) is just seems to work ok. On OpenSolaris, it is far from
clear how best to do it. I had a lot of trouble with it
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7761
then finally managed to do it by building OpenSSL from source.
Jaap Spies had problems, so I gave him my binaries, but that did not help him. I
then gave him access to my machine, where python built OK for him. He finally
got it working on his machine.
I just tried a build of Sage 4.3 on Solaris 8 (released in 2001) on a Sun Blade
1000 (SPARC processors). There are no prizes for guessing where the Solaris 8
build failed - on the haslib module
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7892
This failure on Solaris 8 was despite the fact the latest versions of the
OpenSSL libraries were installed. OpenSSL binaries were downloaded from
Sunfreeware, not built from source.
So it seems the Solaris/Python/OpenSSL mixture is a bit tricky. I could find no
way of telling the python configuration file exactly what SSL library I wanted
it to use if a system has more than one version. Neither do I know what
version(s) of OpenSSL work.
There is also the issue of the GPL. One could argue Sage is not GPL on at least
some versions of Solaris, as one needs to download the non-GPL OpenSSL libraries.
Packing a working OpenSSL library is not possible due to the license.
I can only hope, that as more people try to build Sage on Open Solaris, we might
get a better understanding of what causes this problem.
If anyone understands it better than me, please let me know.
Dave
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