On Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:38:24 PM UTC+1, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > > > On Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:41:15 PM UTC+1, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> >> On 28 February 2013 16:12, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > For info, I'm trying to build Sage on a Debian sparc64, and it failed >> > because by default gcc produces 32 bits objects but then MPIR (and MPFR >> and >> > MPC) decided to be smart enough to build as 64 bits, and then when Sage >> > tried to build its own GCC, which is 32 bits, it failed... >> > >> > Exporting ABI=32 seems to calmn down MPIR, but I guess it should be >> like >> > that by default. >> > If I by any chance get a working 32 bit install, I'll try to give a 64 >> bits >> > install a shot, and this should be triggered using SAGE64 :) >> >> I can't see a lot of point running Linux on SPARC. OK, it might >> install and run, but it has had nowhere near the amount of testing as >> Solaris does, which is a very stable operating system - far more so >> that Linux in most cases. Linux on SPARC will get very little testing. >> >> > I'll also give a shot on Solaris 10 / sparc64, but the gcc I have there >> is >> > old and MPIR complains... >> > To be clear, the GCC/MPIR problem did not happen on Solaris. It failed before complaining it could not find the prereq-1.1 untarred dir. Strange.
> >> Sage has a gcc package which the gcc 3.4.3 did build last time I tried >> it - 6 months or so ago. My SPARC is on now doing some data collection >> from a vector network analyzer. I could try building the latest Sage >> and let you know how it gets on. >> >> I'd certainly try Sage 32-bit on Solaris before attempting 64-bit. >> Last time I tried there was a problem with Pynac loading things it >> should not, and this made it impossible to build a stabe Sage on >> 64-bit SPARC. I think it is possible to compute 1+1, but not al alful >> lot else. >> >> I'll download the latest Sage and give it a try. I don't have the >> latest Solaris on my SPARC - it Solaris 10 3/05, so about 8 years old. >> But given the excellent backwards compatibility of Solaris, if Sage >> builds on the 2005 realease it should build on the 2013 release. >> >> Dave >> > I also have access to a Solaris (5.10) Sparc (ultrasparc T2+) but it > failed miserably unpacking the prereq spkg, so I've begun with what looked > easier first. > I'll report on that as well. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
