William Stein wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Dr. David Kirkby
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I just made a small fix to readline's spkg-install, so readline 6.0 builds
>> properly on HP-UX. With that fixed, the first point of failure when building
>> Sage 4.2.1 on HP-UX is with gnutls-2.2.1. Although HP-UX is not a supported
>> platform, I created a ticket for this.
>>
>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7511
>>
>> Coincidently (or not!), the first point of failure on OpenSolaris is also 
>> with
>> gnutls-2.2.1.
>>
>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7387
>>
>> It seems gnutls-2.2.1 is causing problems on at least two platforms (HP-UX 
>> and
>> OpenSolaris), though the error messages are completely different. (I do have 
>> a
>> workaround for the OpenSolaris issue, but it is not really a nice solution)
>>
>> Is there any good reason for using such an old version (Jan 2008) of gnutls 
>> when
>> the latest is 2.8.5?
> 
> No reason.
> 
> William
> 

I tried an update to the latest version, but it did not fix the problems on 
HP-UX or OpenSolaris, but created one on Solaris 10, but it would not build on 
Solaris 10, whereas the older one does.

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