#13768: upgrade polymake to version 2.12-rc3
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Reporter: tkluck | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.8
Component: packages | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
Authors: Timo Kluck | Merged in:
Dependencies: #13767 | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by kcrisman):
I guess it stays experimental for now - here's the message on a Mac OS X
10.7. We explicitly do NOT want Fink as a prereq. Does anybody even
still use Fink? ;-)
{{{
gcc version 4.6.3 (GCC)
****************************************************
The Fink package system is a mandatory prerequisite to build and use
polymake under MacOS.
Please refer to http://polymake.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/doku.php/mac
for details and installation instructions.
If you already have Fink installed at a non-standard location, please
specify it using option --with-fink
Failed to configure.
real 0m0.792s
user 0m0.042s
sys 0m0.024s
************************************************************************
Error installing package polymake-2.12
************************************************************************
}}}
That said, we could probably get around that by hacking their installation
procedure, especially since [http://polymake.mathematik.tu-
darmstadt.de/doku.php/mac] apparently doesn't exist.
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In fact, [http://polymake.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/doku.php/howto/mac]
(do you want to report that upstream?) says that
{{{
compiling sources from scratch without Fink (polymake 2.10 or later)
}}}
is supported, if you have java (?!?!?!)
Anyway, I don't care about this for experimental, but at least one person
I know who was VERY interested in using polymake through Sage uses Mac.
Reading through their stuff, they just need a real gcc (not the Apple
compiler on modern ones), which we provide, and perl, which is a prereq
for Sage. See [http://polymake.mathematik.tu-
darmstadt.de/doku.php/howto/mac#without_fink without fink] for a full list
of prereqs, which I think we include - including, soon, the full Boost
headers - and some compiling options.
Timo, if you aren't interested in doing this :-) then perhaps you can open
a ticket with some of this information for moving polymake to an optional
spkg.
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