> Although Sage builds fully and passes all doctest on 32-bit Solaris > with gcc, there are a couple of issues I'm aware of where gcc is not > working as well as I'd like. > > * R will not build 64-bit on OpenSolaris with gcc > * The optional OpenMPI will not build with gcc on Solaris, but will > with the Sun compiler. > > However, we can't build Sage with the Sun compiler, as there are too > many GNUisms. > > Hence I''ve been thinking about the possibility of building some > packages only with the Sun compiler. > > One way to do this would be to defined three environment variables > > SAGE_NON_GNU_CC > SAGE_NON_GNU_CXX > SAGE_NON_GNU_FC > > which if set would use those compilers C, C++ and Fortran compilers > rather than the usual gcc on a few packages where this is desirable - > like OpenMPI and possibly R. > > Any thoughts on this, or suggestions for a better approach? > Hi Dave,
It may be the most desirable at the moment. The other option would be to use system version of these packages like it is done for ATLAS. It would certainly work for R, up to a point (sage in its current state is compatible with 2.10.x, 2.11.x but not 2.12.x). Francois This email may be confidential and subject to legal privilege, it may not reflect the views of the University of Canterbury, and it is not guaranteed to be virus free. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. Please refer to http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/emaildisclaimer for more information. -- 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
