No, I don't have a trac account. I'm not sure I have the time to satisfy
the requirement "Make sure you understand the review process, and the
procedures for opening and closing tickets." I'm already a bit exhausted
from debugging the OSX 10.6 build process.
Daniel
On Monday, September 1, 2014 1:24:20 PM UTC, Volker Braun wrote:
>
> 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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