Hi Jeroen, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > I have made a spkg for GCC (GNU compiler collection) version 4.6.3 with > compilers for C, C++ and Fortran. We don't always build GCC, by default > only on systems where this is needed or which have an old GCC version. > > The main motivation for this ticket was to make Sage work on OS X 10.7. > But I think that having a GCC spkg is good for porting in general. It > should also slightly increase Sage run-time performance for people with > older compilers. The review of this package should not focus on OS X 10.7. > > To make reviewing this ticket more easy, I have made some testing > releases, see the ticket #12369 for details. As far as I know, on every > system on which sage-5.0.beta7 vanilla works, the testing release with > GCC also works.
Thanks, this is awesome. I was trying to create a gfortran package about two years ago, so that I obtain a gfortran binary on a Mac, but only managed to get it to compile on Linux, not Mac. So I decided to ship a binary, but this is much better. I see that you figured out lots of things in the spkg-install. What is your opinion on this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/9CBKLU6LYkU/HNhJBKJ45VMJ which has discouraged me to pursue this path further. I am glad that you pushed this through. In your experience is there any problem with simply building gcc from scratch (when needed)? Ondrej -- 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
