Congratulations, it seems that you have made a great deal of progress
on this!

-Marshall

On Mar 1, 8:42 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> I've just succeeded in getting all doctests to pass on Solaris. After updating
> sqlite, which awaits review at:
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8408
>
> as well as the following (some need review)
>
>      * #7867 Python patch, to allow Sage library to build.
>      * #8191 Addition of iconv, which is needed for R
>      * #8285 Update R's spkg-install to work on Solaris
>      * #8363 Remove a useless check for mpir in cddlib
>      * #8375 Numerical noise in devel/sage/sage/symbolic/pynac.pyx
>      * #8374 Numerical noise in devel/sage/sage/symbolic/constants_c.pyx
>      * #8371 Patch to allow pyprocessing to build - it failed after python was
> patched as #7867. (Note #6503 aims to remove pyprocessing completely).
>
> ALL the Solaris doctests pass on my Blade 1000!!!
>
> Prior to updating sqlite, 5 tests were failing, but the sqlite update sorted
> them all out.
>
> The longest test is taking about 460 s on my 10-year old machine, but I rekon 
> on
> 't2' one would have to set SAGE_TIMEOUT to 2000 s to be safe, as 't2', which 
> is
> designed for very different tasks, is significantly slower than my machine.
>
> I suspect someone will manage to break something in the next release, but if 
> the
> release is handled carefully, it should be possible to produce a Sage which 
> not
> only builds on Solaris, but passed all doctests too.
>
> I have not yet run the long doctests. (Perhaps I'm frightened too!)
>
> Dave

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