Did you open a trac ticket to fix the sage-bdist script?

On Monday, September 1, 2014 2:17:57 PM UTC+1, Daniel Friedan wrote:
>
> I believe I've now succeeded in building a Mac OS X 10.6 .app version 
> of Sage 6.3 (with help recorded in a separate thread).
>
> I had to fix a mistake in the file src/bin/sage-bdist (a mistake
> that affects the official OS X .app builds), and I also had to
> make a few other changes to that file.  (Details at the end of
> this posting.)
>
> I'd be happy to upload
>   sage-6.3-x86_64-Darwin-app.dmg
> if somebody will tell me how to do it.
>
> I'd also be happy to volunteer to produce future Mac OS X 10.6 
> .app versions.
>
> I'm a bit unsure that I've done enough to validate the build:
>     (1) 'make' finishes with no error message at the end
>     (2) './sage -bdist' finishes with "** BUILD SUCCEEDED **"
>     (3) the 'file' commands
>           $ file Sage-6.3.app/Contents/MacOS/Sage
>           $ file Sage-6.3.app/Contents/Resources/sage/local/bin/*
>           $ file Sage-6.3.app/Contents/Resources/sage/local/lib/*
>         show all architectures are 64-bit.
>     (4) Sage-6.3.app runs under OS X 10.6.8
>     (5) a sample workbook executes properly
>
> Is there more that one should do to validate the build?
>
> Is there any way to tell from inside Sage that it is running in 
> 64-bit mode?
>
> The output from '$ ./sage -bdist' showed some strange looking command line 
> options:
>       -mmacosx-version-min=10.4
> and
>        setenv MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET 10.4
> and gave a warning:        
>     <built-in>:0: warning: Mac OS X version 10.5 or later is needed for 
> use of the new objc abi
>
> Why do these command line options refer to '10.4'?
>
> ==============================================
> Procedure for building a Mac OS X 10.6 .app version of Sage 6.3
>
> (1) The file src/bin/sage-bdist contains a mistake:
>        'ARCHES' should be 'ARCHS'.
> The effect of the mistake is that the OS X application is 
> always built as 32-bit ('i386').  This can be seen by running 
> $ file Sage-6.3.app/Contents/MacOS/Sage
> in the OS X 10.9 .app version currently being distributed 
> officially.
>
> (2) sage-bdist uses `uname -m` to determine the target 
> architecture.  Some of the older 64-bit Macintoshes can only boot into 
> a 32-bit system.  These machines run 64-bit Sage perfectly well.  
> They can make and build 64-bit Sage perfectly well.  The problem is that 
> `uname -m` returns 'i386'.  I added an environment variable to 
> override `uname -m` (SAGE_APP_TARGET_ARCH==x86_64).
>
> I also added some code to sage-bdist to append '-app' to the name 
> of the .dmg file produced.
>
> I also added an environment variable (SAGE_APP_GZ=no) to prevent 
> the final compression stage, to save time during debugging 
> sage-bdist.
>
> The procedure that worked for making and building the Mac OS X 10.6 .app 
> version of Sage 6.3 was:
>
> $ git clone git://github.com/sagemath/sage.git
> $ cd sage
> $ export MAKE="make -j2"
> $ $MAKE
> $ cp ../sage-bdist-TARGET_ARCH-app src/bin/sage-bdist
> $ git remote add trac git://trac.sagemath.org/sage.git -t master
> $ git fetch trac u/iandrus/trac-16796
> $ git checkout FETCH_HEAD
> $ export SAGE_APP_TARGET_ARCH=x86_64
> $ export SAGE_APP_DMG=yes
> $ export SAGE_APP_BUNDLE=yes
> $ ./sage -bdist
>
> It produced a somewhat smaller version of Sage 6.3 than the 
> officially distributed OS X 10.6 version.  It looks like the size 
> difference is due to git stuff.  Starting with a fresh clone 
> seems worthwhile (cloning is a small fraction of the 'make' time.)
>
> Daniel
>
>

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