Re: [sage-devel] Source code of sympow must makes no sense

2010-08-07 Thread Willem Jan Palenstijn
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 03:59:49PM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 08/ 7/10 03:37 PM, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote: > >>> From my experience, by far the most efficient way of writing cross-platform > > Who are you quoting? I'm not quoting. Somewhere in the email chain the escaped "From " wasn't

Re: [sage-devel] Source code of sympow must makes no sense

2010-08-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/ 7/10 03:37 PM, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote: From my experience, by far the most efficient way of writing cross-platform code is being "reasonably" aware of the relevant standards, and then simply fix any remaining issues as they pop up. Please don't take this the wrong way, as I greatly

Re: [sage-devel] Source code of sympow must makes no sense

2010-08-07 Thread Willem Jan Palenstijn
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 02:47:45PM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > sympow seems to have presented some problems on Solaris 10 on x86. I've > tried looking at this source code, and it makes little sense whatsoever > to me. > > > Anyway, that aside, lets get to the C source code. > > I tried to c

[sage-devel] Source code of sympow must makes no sense

2010-08-07 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
sympow seems to have presented some problems on Solaris 10 on x86. I've tried looking at this source code, and it makes little sense whatsoever to me. William has tried to clean up the 'Configure' script, though it's still very messy, with things like SH=`whichexe sh` && echo "#define SH \"$S