On 25 January 2015 at 15:49, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-01-25, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 25 January 2015 at 13:49, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
>>> On 2015-01-25 14:37, Vincent Delecroix wrote:
>>>>
>>>> All right. Thanks for your report.
>>>>
>>>> That being said, it is sad that Sage fails to build on Ubuntu 12.04
>>>> which is an LTS running until 2017...
>>
>> This cannot be right -- until a couple of days ago all the machines I
>> run had ubuntu 12.04 and could build Sage fine, not only the recent
>> git versions but the tarballs before that.  I cannot check now, having
>> just finished the last 12.04 --> 14.04 upgrade.
>
> this could be hardware-specific. Here, AFAIK,  broken gcc emits assembler
> instructions not supported by the processor, but the better your processor, 
> the
> larger is the number of supported instructions.
>

Various AMD Opterons.

> or it could be that you forced building of gcc...

I don't think so (how to tell?)

John

>
> Dima
>>
>> John
>>
>>>
>>> We could blacklist their GCC... (Debian/Ubuntu has a long history of
>>> shipping broken versions of GCC, the Debian versions adding bugs which are
>>> not present in the vanilla GCC)
>>>
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