On 07/29/10 08:48 PM, DWL wrote:
That's fine. Perhaps the Solaris hardware requirements can be made explicit on
the install page and in the README.txt file?
Yes, I agree, the README.txt does need more information about building Sage on
Solaris. Any 64-bit SPARC hardware with Solaris 10 on it can build Sage.
The status of Sage on Solaris is changing quite rapidly. 6 months ago it would
not build. Then it built but failed a lot of tests. For the last 3-4 months all
Sage releases work well on Solaris, passing all tests.
The are ports in progress to
* OpenSolaris on x64 hardware
* Solaris 10 32-bit on x86 hardware
* Solaris 10 64-bit on x86 hardware
* Solaris 10 64-bit on SPARC hardware
If you have time, and wish to help on any of these, you are most welcome. Sage
will build 64-bit on SPARC, and can do some basic calculations, but it is not
stable. But if you have some time once you get used to Sage, you can look at
building it 64-bit on your SPARC.
There is more information here about building Sage on Solaris.
http://wiki.sagemath.org/solaris
There's a few people on this list who have built Sage multiple times on Solaris.
Thank you for highlighting was is clearly an issue - if we build Sage on modern
SPARC processors, it is not going to work on older ones.
It looks like I might have to build binaries on a Sun Netra T1, until such time
as we sort out the SAGE_FAT_BINARY issues on SPARC.
Dave
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