On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:45 AM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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).
Strong +1 to your proposal. -- William > > 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 > -- 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
