On 29 January 2010 04:12, David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it would be wisest if I built a binary here, and uploaded > that. It wil take some time as first I would need to build it on a > old/slow computer which has the first release of Solaris 10. Then I > would have to upload it. But it should then work on any Solaris 10 > machine, whereas the binary I currently have could only be guaranteed > to work on Solaris 10 update 7 or later. Perhaps any binary is better than no binary. It is going to take me the best part of two weeks to upload a binary built on the first release of Solaris 10, since: * The machine I have is a very slow 500 MHz UltraSPARC IIe processor. * Only 1.5 GB RAM * Used for numerous other tasks, (webserver, collects chess games from the Internet, processes those games ...) so I need to reduce the build priority of Sage * My upload speed is a theoretical maximum of 256 kbit/s, but in fact I never get that. Perhaps Minh could create a binary of his build of 't2' (which I'm confident will succeed), and put that on the web site, with a note it was built on Solaris 10 update 7, so may not run on older releases of Solaris. Then that binary could be replaced at a later date with one I have built, which should work on any Solaris 10 machine. It's quite possible a binary built on 't2' would run on the first release of Solaris 10, but it is by no means guaranteed. Someone has actually said it definitely will not, due to a change in the version numbers of the libraries at some time since that was released in 2005. I'll install the GNU coreutils on 't2' as otherwise 'sage -bdist' will fail, due to its use of GNU specific options to the 'cp' command. The binary would have to be created with GCC's C, C++ and Fortran libraries added. Hopefully anyone wanting to try Sage will have a reasonably recent version of Solaris installed. As the release dates of Solaris get older, so a binary built on 't2' would be less and less likely to work. 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
