On 04/30/12 03:45 AM, leif wrote:
On Apr 29, 9:23 pm, Volker Braun<vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
Its pretty clear that this version does not support SSE4.
... and, frankly speaking, one shouldn't be surprised that Sage
doesn't support ancient Linux distros, at least not out-of-the-box.
There are a couple of ways to fix / work around this, e.g.:
- Update 'gas' (the GNU assembler), or your whole binutils.
- Build Sage [5.x] with SAGE_INSTALL_GCC=no.
- Use your system compiler to build the spkg:
$ env CC=/usr/bin/gcc ./sage -i ...
Actually, it depends on the CPU the person has. I'm building the latest Sage
source with an even older assembler, on a CentOS 4.7 system, which I had to fake
to report it was Redhat, in order to install some software.
[drkirkby@blackcap ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 7)
#CentOS release 4.7 (Final)
[drkirkby@blackcap ~]$ as --version
GNU assembler 2.15.92.0.2 20040927
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `x86_64-redhat-linux'.
[drkirkby@blackcap ~]$
The difference is, my 3.16 GHz Intel X5460 Xeon processors don't have the SSE4
instructions.
I'm guessing, if you prevented the compiler from using late instructions, the
assembler would not complain. But updating the assembler seems a better idea.
But perhaps an option to use a more generic set of instructions would be nice.
It would mean its possible to distribute the binaries to a wider range of people.
[drkirkby@blackcap ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 1992.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6321.69
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 1992.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 1
cpu cores : 4
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6317.46
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 1992.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 2
cpu cores : 4
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6317.49
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 1992.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6317.51
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 4
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 2324.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 4
core id : 4
cpu cores : 4
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6317.54
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 5
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 2324.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 4
core id : 5
cpu cores : 4
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6317.54
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 6
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 2324.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 4
core id : 6
cpu cores : 4
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6317.53
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 7
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 2324.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 4
core id : 7
cpu cores : 4
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm pni monitor ds_cpl est
tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6317.53
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
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