On 2/8/10 8:17 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: > On 8 Feb 2010, at 19:34, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
