On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Dr. David Kirkby<[email protected]> wrote: > > RaoulV wrote: >> For me, I will prefer if the second option is implemented: fix >> ratpoints so that it builds with GCC 3.4 >> >> I have a network with >50 machines installed with Centos 4 and I can >> not upgrade them to Centos 5 because some of the tools(commercials) >> that we are using does not still work/support it and the Compiler/ >> toolchain supported by Centos 4 is GCC 3.4 and not GCC 4.1 (supported >> by Centos 5).
+1 OK, I've opened a ticket for this: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6580 William >> >> I am afraid if I install GCC 4.1 on Centos 4 that I break my system . >> >> Raoul > > Another advantage of getting the author of this ratpoints (whatever that > is) to build on gcc 3.4 is that Solaris comes with gcc 3.4.3. > > It would make life a LOT easier for Solaris users if they did not need > to install gcc first. > > Dave > > >> On Jul 19, 8:52 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 2009/7/16 Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]>: >>> >>> >>> >>>> William Stein wrote: >>>>> Install GCC >=4.1.x. >>>>> -- William >>>> Is that a requirement? Someone said yesterday 3.4 was ok. >>> 3.4 used to be OK. The new ratpoints packages that Robert Miller introduced >>> in >>> Sage-4.x does not build with gcc-3.x, so as of right now, GCC >= 4.x >>> is a requirement. >>> The right fix is to either change our prereq script, or fix ratpoints >>> so that it builds >>> with gcc-3.x again. If possible, the second option would be much better. >>> >>>> Somebody tried yesterday to build on OpenSolaris with gcc 3.4.3 >>>> (compiler in /usr/sfw/bin) and it failed due to what I believe is an >>>> MPIR failure to detect the Sun linker. (The configure script thinks its >>>> the GNU liner). >>>> But if Sage needs >= 4.1, it should bomb out at an early stage if that >>>> requirement is not met. >>>> dave >>> -- >>> William Stein >>> Associate Professor of Mathematics >>> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org >> > >> > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
