On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:48 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 14 July 2010 00:49, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Sage Developers, >> >> I'm setting the Sage-5.0 target date for August 31, 2010 (see >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-5.0). The goals >> are: >> >> 1. Windows port via Cygwin: >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort >> 2. Upgrade PARI to svn: #9343 >> 3. Upgrade MPIR to version 2.x: #8664 >> 4. Raise the coverage score to 90% >> 5. (Done) Sparc Solaris 10 > > Currently the SPARC is only 32-bit. If you are lucky, you might get > 64-bit SPARC and/or OpenSolaris x64 by then.
That would be amazing. > I rekon there is an 80% > chance of one or the other by then. Just as I write, I'm trying a > 64-bit build on 't2' in > > /rootpool2/local/kirkby/64/sage-4.5.rc0 > > 73 packages have all built as 64-bit binaries and the build is still > going. I think the build will fail (singular, pynac, libfpll are > likely problems), but I suspect by the end of August a 64-bit build is > possible. I've solved all those on x64, though some of the solutions > are rather hackish. > > With the exception of R and Maxima, Sage actually builds on > OpenSolaris x64, but it crashes at startup That's incredible. > and I don't have much idea > how to debug that. (I created you an account on my quad core 3.33 GHz > Xeon if you want to try debugging it). I do. Thanks for the reminder. > disk.math needs quite a bit of setting up, as too many tools are too > old, or configured in a way that wont work. It would take the best > part of a day to sort out disk.math for building Sage. I agree. > > There's a good chance Maxima and R might build on 64-bit SPARC, and > the patches to pynac, singular and libfplll that work on OpenSolaris > x64, should work on 64-bit SPARC. > > So you can probably be a bit more optimistic on the Solaris front, and > not just consider it done. Sweet. > > Dave > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
