Does that mean that also I cannot compile sage myself on a non-sse3
machine (like my old amd64)? When I try I get "Illegal instructions"
but not sure if its the cpu or something with the dependencies.

Rado

On Apr 11, 8:49 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:45 PM, ksk...@gmail.com <ksk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I tried running the Fedora 10 64-bit binary and it warns me about
> > illegal instructions. When I remove local/lib/sage-flags.txt, the
> > result crashes on startup with:
>
> Oh, I didn't realize that the sage-flags.txt file had warned you. Then
> there isn't a bug -- this is *precisely* what should happen.
>
> The only thing you can do is wait until either (1) we build binaries
> that work on old hardware, if we ever get access to it (unlikely), or
> (2) Michael Abshoff changes the ATLAS spkg so it doesn't use sse3
> instructions.  That's trac 5284:
>
>  http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5284
>
>
>
>
>
> > /scratch/sage-3.4-linux-Fedora_release_10_Cambridge-x86_64-Linux/local/
> > bin/sage-sage: line 197: 15423 Illegal instruction     sage-ipython
> > "$@" -i
>
> > The outcome of cat /proc/cpuinfo is:
> > processor       : 0
> > vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> > cpu family      : 15
> > model           : 5
> > model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246
> > stepping        : 10
> > cpu MHz         : 1994.307
> > cache size      : 1024 KB
> > fpu             : yes
> > fpu_exception   : yes
> > cpuid level     : 1
> > wp              : yes
> > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
> > cmov
> > pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext
> > 3dnow rep_good nopl
> > bogomips        : 3988.61
> > TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
> > clflush size    : 64
> > cache_alignment : 64
> > address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> > power management: ts fid vid ttp
>
> > processor       : 1
> > vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> > cpu family      : 15
> > model           : 5
> > model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246
> > stepping        : 10
> > cpu MHz         : 1994.307
> > cache size      : 1024 KB
> > fpu             : yes
> > fpu_exception   : yes
> > cpuid level     : 1
> > wp              : yes
> > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
> > cmov
> > pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext
> > 3dnow rep_good nopl
> > bogomips        : 3988.58
> > TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
> > clflush size    : 64
> > cache_alignment : 64
> > address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> > power management: ts fid vid ttp
>
> > I haven't yet gotten to test building from source on this box in its
> > current configuration, due to some config issues in my toolchain
> > (that's why I was trying the binary in the first place).
>
> > Kiran
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org

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