Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>
>> If one tries to build Sage on OpenSolaris, python will not build,
>> complaining
>> about a missing md5 module.
>>
>>
>> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>> File "/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.2/local/lib/python/hashlib.py",
>> line 136,
>> in <module>
>> md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5')
>> File "/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.2/local/lib/python/hashlib.py",
>> line 63,
>> in __get_builtin_constructor
>> import _md5
>> ImportError: No module named _md5
>>
>> real 2m15.850s
>> user 1m46.382s
>> sys 0m19.649s
>> sage: An error occurred while installing python-2.6.2.p4
>>
>>
>> William said the other day the way around this is to build the
>> OpenSSL libraries
>> first. Then I looked and see that the OpenSSL libraries were at one
>> time
>> included in Sage, but were removed since they are not GPL. This was
>> done in
>> ticket #478
>>
>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/478
>>
>> So I'm not sure what to do here. Clearly I could install the OpenSSL
>> libraries,
>> and will no doubt do that so progress can be made. But this seems
>> quite a
>> fundamental problem. There seems two choices
>>
>> * Include OpenSSL with Sage, which we can't do as its not GPL
>> * Tell people to build that themselves, which is still meaning
>>
>> BTW, I was hoping to get my changes for the code which checks the
>> prerequisites
>> for Sage (version 0.5) reviewed.
>>
>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7352
>>
>> Should OpenSSL library support be considered a prerequiste for Sage?
>
> I don't think so, at least not yet. If Sage builds fine and passes all
> doctests except for this one detail, then perhaps we should bring it
> up again at that point, but it really sounds like a bug in the
> OpenSolaris linker (not being able to build gnutls) and adding a
> prerequisite seems like a heavy-handed fix.
>
> - Robert
gnutls builds fine with only one set of libraries. I do not know if that is a
linker bug, or a bug in the way the linker is called, which uses libtool.
According to this very old trac ticket
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/478
"Unfortunately, gnutls's presence isn't enough for Python to build the "md5"
module, and SAGE needs that module. "
But looking in a bit more detail, the openssl library exists on the Solaris
system, version 0.9.8. So I'm not sure why python would not build. William said
to build that.
Note, the OpenSolaris system here is a Xeon, not a SPARC. (Solaris 10 will run
on x86 and OpenSolaris will run on SPARC). I just do not happen to have any of
those combos.
r...@hawk:~# uname -a
SunOS hawk 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc
r...@hawk:~# ls -l /lib/libssl.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 26 17:17 /lib/libssl.so ->
./libssl.so.0.9.8
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