Re: [sage-devel] Updated zlib - can someone test - especially Debian on Itanium

2010-05-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 05/21/10 04:51 PM, William Stein wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: The current version of zlib in Sage is rather out of date. It has patches to generate 64-bit on OS X, fails to work 64-bit on OpenSolaris and appears to have some dubious options used when it is

Re: [sage-devel] Updated zlib - can someone test - especially Debian on Itanium

2010-05-21 Thread William Stein
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > The current version of zlib in Sage is rather out of date. It has patches to > generate 64-bit on OS X, fails to work 64-bit on OpenSolaris and appears to > have some dubious options used when it is configured. The -fPIC flag was > added o

[sage-devel] Updated zlib - can someone test - especially Debian on Itanium

2010-05-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
The current version of zlib in Sage is rather out of date. It has patches to generate 64-bit on OS X, fails to work 64-bit on OpenSolaris and appears to have some dubious options used when it is configured. The -fPIC flag was added on every platform, since it was needed on Debian Itanium. I've