On Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 11:54:00 AM UTC-7, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: > > On 2 September 2017 at 01:41, John H Palmieri <jhpalm...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> Hi Dave, >> >> Can you clarify? You say that the are necessary on Solaris, but is that >> recent information? It is possible that newer versions of Sage and/or >> Solaris might make SAGE64 unnecessary. >> >> Regards, >> John >> > > Hi John, > > https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18659_01/html/821-1384/gexcx.html > > says that the -m64 flag would be needed to create a 64-bit executable. It > also says -m32 it required to create 32-bit executable. It is not too clear > on the default, but I rather suspect it is still 32-bit. The latest version > is Solaris 11.3. I'm running Solaris 11, but not 11.3. >
I don't know if Sage works on Solaris right now, but if it does, does it build gcc (as it does on OS X), or does it use a preexisting compiler? > > I believe SAGE64 does more than just add the -m64 flag in a couple of > places, so I would propose it is not removed, as it would effectively kit > any attempt to build a 64-bit Solaris version of Sage. > I think it mainly adds -m64, but this is not hard to investigate. John -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
