Hi, On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:14:20PM +1200, François Bissey wrote: > So I have been inspecting giac, as any discussion of making something > a standard package as an impact for sage-on-gentoo. > We have an old version in the science overlay so I am working on > upgrading it. > > 1) current 1.2.2-63 and a few earlier versions need the gui, compiling > with "--disable-gui" is broken.
If there is a choice there, i would vote for having the gui compiled by default, and have a 'sage -giac' and/or 'sage -xcas' commands available. Ciao, Thierry > 2) the dependency on libao was making me curious so I investigated. > It is an "automagic" dependency. There is a line > AC_CHECK_LIB(ao, main) > in configure.in and the library can be used in src/maple.cc. > What this means is that if you build sage binary on a machine that > has libao, giac will be broken when the binary is installed on > machines without it. So this has to be fixed when giac becomes > standard. > 3) lapack can be used but detection is strange and it could lead to > similar pitfalls than libao if the right files are present on the build > system. It currently cannot pick up sage's lapack. It is a default > configure option. > > I haven't gone through giacpy yet, but I don't like the fact there > is a sage specific version. Something could be done to only have one > source if my understanding of the issues and solution are correct. > > Francois > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
