#5062: Make sure that "sage -b" checks build compatibility on shared filesystems
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Reporter: mabshoff | Owner: mabshoff
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: sage-3.3
Component: build | Keywords:
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This is a followup to #22:
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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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5062>
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