Hi William, > > On Fedora 12 x86_64 I had build failures with gd and atlas. > > > > The gd issue could be resolved by putting /usr/include/iconv.h and > > /usr/bin/iconv aside.
I can confirm that the same issues occur on openSuSE 11.1 (64), 11.0 (32), gentoo 1.12.9 (64), and mandriva 1010 (64), that is all machine I tried except combinat.sagemath.org. I manage to let gd build (see #8567) but then though sage itself appears to build it is broken and doesn't start, again due to a linking failure with iconv. Let me cite David on #8567: > I had a discussion with a libtool developer about a similar issue once > before. He said it is wrong to have two copies of a library, so the problem > may be more fundamental. However, it is strange gd ignores the option to > look for iconv in $SAGE_LOCAL. I don't know what to do and I've no more time to investigate (I already spend half of my week-end on it together with the rebase of sage-combinat queue). Also I must confess I'm far from being an expert on those issues. So maybe, if there is one in the sage project, it's a good time to step up and fix this quickly. If this doesn't happen, here is my feeling: <disclaimer> This is by no means an attack against the release managers. Many thanks to them for there hard work, but shit happens. And we have to find ways to prevent them and to solve them quickly. </disclaimer> I think that we can't seriously make a release which is broken on half the distros. Shouldn't we revert R from it's previous version, remove gd and make as soon as possible a fix release until this is sorted out ? > I like all the talk about checklists on sage-devel recently: > checklists are good, and would prevent this sort of thing. > > I hope there is a minor 4.3.5 bugfix release that deals with this. +1, extra +1 having this as soon as possible. Cheers, Florent -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
