Hi Francois, > > Well thanks for the plug for our work. We are quite happy to develop the > prefix
:-) > part of sage-on-gentoo, so far the effort has been limited but if you are > testing it on an arch we are quite happy to try to get as much as possible > keyworded. Is the keywording the most prominent issue, or getting dozens of ebuilds "$EPREFIX"-ified? (Or is this the same? My understanding of Gentoo internals and the Gentoo ecosystem is still rather limited.) > By the way did you try sage-4.5.3 or 4.6 (alphaX/rc0)? I don't think it really mattered, but I targeted sage-4.5.3 (while some 4.6 alpha had been the youngest ebuild then). > > Indeed gentoo do not offer you the possibility to have "relocatable" binaries > as such. It's not the point in a way. However gentoo can create binary > packages (on an individual package basis) so it would be possible to install > binaries from a base gentoo prefix install. As far as I understand, (re-)installing such a binary package would only be possible in exactly the same $EPREFIX path, where the binary package was originally installed in (although possibly on another computer, of course). That is too tight a restriction in many use cases (e.g. if you're not the administrator and want/need to install Sage in your home directory). > > Francois How to continue? E.g. what would you propose, as how I should "make known" the two gcc-apple patches I mentioned (nobody else seems to use Gentoo Prefix on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, so who possibly would/could review say a patch on Gentoo Bugzilla)? Another point is that both Gentoo Prefix, as well as the sage-on- gentoo overlay, use patched versions of Python. Maybe it's possible to join these? Cheers, Georg -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
