On 2/8/10 8:17 PM, Kevin Horton wrote:
> On 8 Feb 2010, at 19:34, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 
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>> On 2/8/10 5:55 PM, Kevin Horton wrote:
>>> On 2010-02-02, at 09:54 , Robert Wyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kevin Horton wrote:
>>>>> David and Robert,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is an updated cadabra.info file for you to test.  Assuming you
>>>>> have fink installed in the default /sw location, put this .info
>>>>> file in /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo.  You may have to create
>>>>> this directory if you haven't tested any local .info files before.
>>>>>
>>>>> If the build fails, please send me the last few lines of the build
>>>>> log.  If the build passes, you can try another build in maintainer
>>>>> mode with "fink -m rebuild cadabra".  This adds a few more sanity
>>>>> checks, and it also runs the test suite that is included with cadabra.
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to discuss this issue with the cadabra author, to see if
>>>>> this change might have any performance impact for cadara
>>>>> installations on OS X 10.5 or 10.6.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Kevin Horton
>>>>> Ottawa, Canada
>>>>
>>>> Did we check this in to CVS?
>>>
>>>
>>> I finally sorted out the cause of a crash I was getting when the
>>> cadabra test suite was run on 10.5 PPC.  I captured some logs of the
>>> crash, and sent them to the cadabra author.  He determined that the
>>> root cause was something fouled up in my GMP installation.  
>>> Rebuilding GMP fixed the problem.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, the cadabra author has made a number of fixes, some of
>>> which address issues that were reported to him by OS X users.  I
>>> committed the fink package for cadabra 1.20 yesterday.  It should
>>> work on 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6, although I have only tested it on 10.5
>>> PPC and 10.6 Intel.
>>> -- 
>>> Kevin Horton
>>> Ottawa, Canada
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> One source of problems with gmp and libmpfr1 (possibly fftw3 too, but I
>> haven't been able to substantiate that) is that the official and
>> unofficial binary distributions all use G5s, and the libraries in these
>> packages don't have the right symbols for a G4.
> 
> 
> That is quite possibly the source of my problems.  I have been using
> unofficial binaries for some time on my ancient G4 PowerBook to avoid
> some long build times.  I'll switch back to building everything from
> source.
> -- 
> Kevin Horton
> Ottawa, Canada
> 
> 
> 

I've been able to get by with just making sure that gmp, libmpfr1, and
fftw3 are locally built on my G4.

-- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison

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