On Feb 22, 4:15 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: [...] > I think once again, it shows that gcc's C, C++ and Fortran libraries should > all > be included with Sage. Otherwise, the build relies on the end user having a > similar setup. This is not specific to Solaris, but one can probably get away > with not doing this more on Linux, as generally Linux will come with some > semi-recent compiler. But if someone does not have the compiler installed, or > has an old version, it is quite possible the binaries will break on Linux too.
IMHO, this seems to go too far... If someone does not have a decent modern toolchain installed on his exotic (or not) hardware, that really should not mean that Sage must be even more bloated by including standard tools that are trivial to install. If I didn't throw away, when I moved few years ago, a Digital Alpha XL266 that worked as a Linux router, I would not be trying to install Sage on it without upgrading the Linux kernel to 2.6 and gcc to version 4 :) Perhaps, more details about the compilers/libs needed to build/run sage ought to be included in the distributions, but otherwise it looks that Sage has a meaningful balance between what should or should not come packaged with it... Dima -- 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
