[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-25 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Jun-25 09:09:02 +0200, William Stein wrote: >>The main problems with building Sage on BSD, in my experience, are >>that (1) you have to "gmake" instead of "make" to run the GNU version >>of Make, which is a pain, > > My approach to t

[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jun-25 09:09:02 +0200, William Stein wrote: >The main problems with building Sage on BSD, in my experience, are >that (1) you have to "gmake" instead of "make" to run the GNU version >of Make, which is a pain, My approach to this was to symlink gmake to $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/make since the

[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-25 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:17 AM, wrote: > On 2009-Jun-24 00:56:38 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" > wrote: >>Would it not be sensible to ask around on some FreeBSD/NetBSD mailing >>lists etc, and see if one could drum up enough support to start a port? > > I've done some work on getting Sage to work

[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-25 Thread peterjeremy
On 2009-Jun-24 00:56:38 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: >Would it not be sensible to ask around on some FreeBSD/NetBSD mailing >lists etc, and see if one could drum up enough support to start a port? I've done some work on getting Sage to work on FreeBSD but there is still a way to go. For va

[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-25 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> >>  From the top README.txt >> >> --- >> NOT SUPPORTED: >>       * FreeBSD >>       * Arch Linux >>       * Gentoo Linux >>    

[sage-devel] Re: Ports to FreeBSD and/or NetBSD

2009-06-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 23, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > From the top README.txt > > --- > NOT SUPPORTED: > * FreeBSD > * Arch Linux > * Gentoo Linux > * Microsoft Windows (via Visual Studio C++) > * Microsoft Wind