On Sunday, March 11, 2012, Florent Hivert <florent.hiv...@lri.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:15:35PM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> I have made a spkg for GCC (GNU compiler collection) version 4.6.3 with >> compilers for C, C++ and Fortran, see Trac #12369. >> >> The GCC spkg depends on an MPC (multi-precision complex numbers) spkg. >> There has been an optional MPC package and a Sage interface for it. GCC >> would use the upgraded MPC package from #12515. >> >> According to (unwritten?) rules, one cannot add a spkg as standard >> package if it hasn't been an optional spkg first. I would like to ask >> for an exception for GCC and add it immediately as standard package in >> sage-5.0. Also MPC would need to become a standard package, but this >> already has been an optional package and so is less controversial. >> >> Let me clarify that GCC would not always be built: if the system already >> contains sufficiently recent versions of gcc, g++ and gfortran (or g95 >> or g77), then GCC would not be built. Currently, "sufficiently recent >> version of gcc" is defined as: at least 4.4.0 but not 4.6.0 nor 4.6.1 >> (there are known bugs in cliquer and rubiks with these gcc versions). >> An environment variable SAGE_INSTALL_GCC can be used to override this >> default choice (set to "yes" to force installation of GCC or to "no" to >> prevent it). >> >> The Fortran package (which contained gfortran binaries for OS X) would >> be removed, therefore about 4MB would be added to the source tarball >> size (Fortran was 33MB, GCC+MPC is 37MB). >> >> I think there is not much point in making GCC optional, since it's only >> used at build-time. Once Sage has been built, you don't need it anymore. > > Isn't it used for compiling Cython code ? IF so it could be called from inside > the notebook using "%cython". > >> What are your +1/-1 to making GCC and MPC standard packages? > > +1
+1. (and I *hate* adding packages) > > Florent > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
