#22: [with patch, needs review] add persistent SAGE64 building switch on OSX and
Solaris
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 Reporter:  was          |        Owner:  mabshoff
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  assigned
 Priority:  minor        |    Milestone:  sage-3.3
Component:  build        |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment (by mabshoff):

 Having thought about this and played around a little with uname it seems
 that it will not work and is not fine grained enough anyway. I would
 suggest to do write a small C program that identifies the following:

  * mode: i.e. 32, 64 bit
  * os: linux, osx, solaris, freebsd, cygwin
  * release: this would be the distribution on Linux, OSX 10.4/10.5,
 Solaris 10/Solaris 11/Opensolaris and so on

 The way we can properly identify the build platform and decide more
 intelligently if we issue a warning, i.e running the Fedora 10 build on a
 Fedora 9 box should abort since it doesn't work. The test should be
 wrapped in a shell script since the binary will obviously only run on a
 subset of arches, i.e. if the binary fails to run we just about and print
 a canned warning together with a config info saved as text that is created
 when building the binary.

 This is enough a task to split it off to a new ticket. I have some basic
 code that does some of the above already for OSX since I need this kind of
 code while cleaning up the build system.

 Thoughts?

 Cheers,

 Michael

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