Hi David, On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 07:11:35PM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I thought it had been agreed no package would be standard unless it > is first optional.
Could someone confirm? At the price of one more ticket, we could possibly go for optional for one release and then switch to standard if this seems safer to get feedback. > I tried compiling this on OpenSolaris. Thanks! > It builds with a couple of warnings about variables set but never > used. There's no test code in the source code, but I tried a few of > the examples in the README file and they gave the same output. > > The authors are using the compiler flag -O6, with an obvious > intension of getting maximum optimisation. I'm not sure what happens > in a case like that. It is not a gcc supported option > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.1/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options > > so it might break on future release of gcc if the GCC developers > tighten up on the compiler options, which they have done recently. > Until gcc 4.6.0, the compiler option -KPIC was ignored by gcc, as > it's an option used by the Sun compiler. But now gcc 4.6 actually > exits with an error if that option is given. > > It would certainly be worth discussing with the developers of the > package why they use -O6, when it's not supported by gcc. Which version of lrcalc did you use? Anders has not yet released officially the one included in the lrcalc-1.1.5b.spkg I posted on #10333. This lastest version uses a standard autotools 'configure / make / make install' which does not specify compilation flags. It also contains (admittedly minimal) tests which you can run with ``make check`` (or, from the spkg, using spkg-check). Cheers, Nicolas -- Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net> http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ -- 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
