2009/8/14 Marshall Hampton <[email protected]>: > > I'm all in favor of PIL as standard. Does it install OK on Solaris? > I can't think of any other objection. > > -Marshall
I've just built PIL on 't2' using the *GNU* compiler and it built ok. Given there is a plan eventually to use the Sun compiler on Solaris, I personally think it would be useful for new packages to build with that too. On my machine at home, I have a partial build of Sage using the Sun compiler. I'll have no access to that now (the electricity company are doing some maintenance, so I had to switch off the computers today. I'll switch the machine on when I get home. I would propose if there are any problems with PIL on the Sun compiler, they are sorted out first. It should be pretty simple a package of that size. I note however it uses the -fPIC flag to build some of the code, which is one of the flags that is not portable. Hence if that is hard-coded, it will fail with the Sun compiler. Failing to sort these problems out before packages are included only leaves bigger issues in using the Sun compiler at a later date. I've found with a little tweaking, a large number of programs will build with the Sun compiler. This one is small, so any changes should be easy to integrate. Dave Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
