On Jul 4, 12:13 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > True, which is why I can't tell for 100% sure if > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/488 > and > http://bugs.python.org/issue1204 > are related or not. My gut feeling is they are unrelated.
I'm pretty sure they are the same. This post http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/b9fdd1c4c23c0161 mentions an immediate crash when using readline on itanium. The analysis on http://bugs.python.org/issue1204 is that readline on itanium crashes immediately when tab-completing because of some symbol lookup issue. The correct fix is to modify autotools to link to the correct readline. The (older) sage patch lobotomizes the tab-completion code to achieve the same thing in a highly non-portable way. Since it mucks around at the wrong place it doesn't even collide with the patch for the correct fix. Somebody with access to an itanium machine should try building sage without the patch ;-) Volker -- 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
