In ticket #7092 a change was made to the spkg-install script for pari so that on ALL linux systems the compiler flag was changed from -O3 (the default from the pari distribution) to -O1, in order to fix a build issue which ONLY arises on some version of gcc which ships with Fedora 11. This was about 9 months ago (4.1.2).
Given that the current version of Fedora is 13 and that Sage has many many Linux users whose builds are being crippled (well, slowed down) by this, I propose to *remove* this patch as part of the upgrade to pari 2.4.3 (currently under way in #9343 and a goal for Sage 5.0). Jaap, as you were (I think) the only one who had the problem in the first place, can you comment? I think we will need a very good reason to keep the patch in. I don't know how to write a script which tests for a specific Linux distribution and version, but I would be tempted to add in something like " if $USERNAME=='jaap' " ! John -- 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
