I mean autoreconf -i. Stupid predictive texting. Since when was -I in the
dictionary!

On Monday, 3 December 2012, Bill Hart wrote:

> autoreconf -I should not have changed the output of config.guess.
> Something has gone very wrong.
>
> We supply our own config.guess as the generic one is useless for MPIR
>
> Bill.
>
> On Monday, 3 December 2012, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote:
>
>
>
> On Monday, December 3, 2012 7:43:38 PM UTC+1, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote:
>
>
>
> On Monday, December 3, 2012 7:20:45 PM UTC+1, leif wrote:
>
> Jean-Pierre Flori wrote:
> > On Monday, December 3, 2012 6:35:15 PM UTC+1, Bill Hart wrote:
> >
> >     Time to apply the crumb test to JP's beard with a fine-toothed comb!
> >
> >     By the way, shouldn't Sage be a little faster on my Amstrad PC1512?
> >
> >     Bill.
> >
> >     On 3 December 2012 17:29, leif <not.r...@online.de <javascript:>>
> >     wrote:
> >      > Jean-Pierre Flori wrote:
> >      >>
> >      >>
> >      >>
> >      >> On Monday, December 3, 2012 6:13:57 PM UTC+1, leif wrote:
> >      >>
> >      >>     Jean-Pierre Flori wrote:
> >      >>      > Further info:
> >      >>      > - the result of ./config.guess is
> nehalem-apple-darwin9.8.0,
> >      >>     which is
> >      >>      > not one dealt with in MPIR configure.in
> >     <http://configure.in> <http://configure.in> for
> >      >>
> >      >>     the "32 bit apple darwin
> >      >>      > doesn't like our PIC format asm code".
> >      >>      > - and so we get MPN_PATH=" x86/nehalem x86 generic"
> >      >>
> >      >>     ... then the -march=core-i7 was pretty correct.
> >      >>
> >      >>     Who t** f*** runs a 32-bit operating system on such a
> >     machine?  (Dual
> >      >>     quad-core Xeon even IIRC) ;-)
> >      >>
> >      >> I agree :)
> >      >> And that's the reason nobody complained until we explicitely
> pushed
> >      >> people to do so :)
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > Well, YOU asked for it, so it's definitely your fault... ;-)
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > -leif
> >
> > In fact I just wanted to get rid of the dirty piece of code in sage spkg
> > install script and hoped that nobody would actually answer on sage-devel
> > so that the removal gets undetected.
>
>
> How about changing
>
>      # 32bit apple darwin doesn't like our PIC format asm code
>      case $host in
>          core2-apple-darwin* | penryn-apple-darwin*)
> path="x86/applenopic/core2 x86/applenopic" ;;
>          prescott-apple-darwin* | pentium4-apple-darwin*)
> path="x86/applenopic" ;;
>          pentium3-apple-darwin* | pentium2-apple-darwin*)
> path="x86/applenopic" ;;
>          i686-apple-darwin* | pentiumpro-apple-darwin*)
> path="x86/applenopic" ;;
>          core-apple-darwin*)
> path="x86/applenopic" ;;
>          *)                                                      ;;
>      esac
>
> to just
>
>      # 32bit apple darwin doesn't like our PIC format asm code
>      case $host in
>          core2-apple-darwin* | penryn-apple-darwin*)
> path="x86/applenopic/core2 x86/applenopic" ;;
>          *-apple-darwin*)
> path="x86/applenopic" ;;
>          *)                                                      ;;
>      esac
>
> ?  (As far as I can see, the above snippet is in the x86/x86_64 (and
> 32-bit OS/ABI) branch, so we don't have to deal with other archs than
> these there.)
>
> Otherwise the build will (sooner or later) fail in exactly the same way
> on newer CPUs on 32-bit Darwin.
>
> Btw, it would probably be better to use the applenopic/core2 path on any
> post-Core2 CPU as well.  Then we'd have to invert the logic, such that
> the x86/applenopic/core2 path is *not* chosen / added on
> i[34567]86-|pentium*-|**prescott-|core- (all with 'apple-darwin*'
> appended), but on everything else, hoping that the former list is
> complete.  (We won't have to add CPUs to that list as time goes by, in
> contrast to the post-Core2 list.)
>
> I think its a good idea.
> In fact, as I autoreconfed MPIR, now config.guess spits i386... instead of
> nehalem-... before and of course this was not caught by the updated
> configure and I had to craft a new spkg for testing (in which I put
> *-apple-darwin* just to be sure to get everything).
>
>

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