Dear all, In the process of updating FLINT spkg to use upstream version 2.3, we're updating the spkg-install script and came accross an old hack to be sure that the shared library links to the shared library version of NTL.
But that's not really the problem here. Indeed, building of the shared version of FLINT has been disabled upstream by Bill Hart,because it just does not work out of the box. After a little searching this might just be because building shared libraries of MPIR and MPFR fails (the second one potentially a consequence of the first one). And this might be because MPIR fails to build both shared and static libs at the same time (thats my first idea after a quick search on google and sage trac), see trac ticket #12115. But be aware that I did not test anything myself yet, I'm just installing cygwin right now. Anyway, here is my question, what version of the libraries do we actually need to run Sage? Both? Or just shared versions? Or in a worst scenario, could static versions be sufficient? Maybe this is documented somewhere, but I did not find anything yet. Best, JP -- 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
