On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote: > The current version of zlib in Sage is rather out of date. It has patches to > generate 64-bit on OS X, fails to work 64-bit on OpenSolaris and appears to > have some dubious options used when it is configured. The -fPIC flag was > added on every platform, since it was needed on Debian Itanium.
Hi, I've never heard of a Debian Itanium computer. We don't have one on skynet, and there aren't many itaniums around. Such testing is probably not feasible, unfortunately. > > I've created a cleaner .spkg file, which removes all the junk, and basically > builds zlib in the simplist/cleanest way possible. That might mean it will > not work on some platforms. But its quite possible the problems seen on some > platforms a couple of years ago are no longer an issue. Could a few people > check it out. > > > > http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/patches/zlib-1.2.5/zlib-1.2.5.spkg > > > I've not marked it for review yet, as I want to get it tested more fully. > But the trac ticket is > > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9008 > > > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
