On Sunday, September 5, 2010, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 18 August 2010 19:39, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es> wrote: >> Some time ago i tried to compile sage on a nokia n900 (it is arm >> architecture, like most android devices), over a debian-arm chroot >> inside the native maemo OS. the compilation process went on for >> several hours, but it crashed eventually. IIRC, the problem i found >> was with the atlas library, which aparently cannot be compiled over >> arm. > > That may not be such a big problem as you think. There are ATLAS is a > set of optimised routines for which there are much simpler > non-optimised versions. Some are already in Sage, such as BLAS, Lapack > etc. These are relatively simple C or Fortran programs, so it may be > possible to circumvent the ATLAS problem. >
It definitely is. The gsl blas is much simpler and can be used instead. We did this in sage for a year before including atlas. > Another attack may be to get ATLAS to build on ARM. The fact it builds > on so many different systems suggests it might not be too difficult to > sort out the issues. > > 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
