On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> On 02/ 8/12 10:18 AM, Julien Puydt wrote:
>>
>> Le samedi 04 février, Julien Puydt a écrit:
>>>
>>> After I compile mp.c with only the -O switch, pari and the rest of
>>> sage compiled correctly.
>>
>>
>> Amusing remark :
>>
>> sage: float(maxima('1e+17'))
>> 1e+17
>>
>> One problem down... It's a shame others came up...
>>
>> Snark on #sagemath
>>
>
>
> Any attempt to port sage to another platform seems to bring up endless
> issues. It took me several years of my spare time to get Sage building on
> Solaris. Prior to my efforts, someone else worked on it full time for two
> years, though he never got very far with it.
>
> I've looked at building Sage on both AIX and HP-UX, but the issues are
> formidable. (In the case of HP-UX, there is probably little point anyway,
> but IBM make some very fast machines which run AIX).
>
> I think your ARM port will be less hassle than an AIX port!!!!Thank you Julian/Snark for your really valuable contributions! It's going to be fun to run Sage on my gtab. William > > -- > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > > -- > 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
