#14491: Add FreeBSD as a supported platform
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       Reporter:  kcrisman      |         Owner:  pjeremy  
           Type:  enhancement   |        Status:  new      
       Priority:  major         |     Milestone:  sage-5.10
      Component:  porting: BSD  |    Resolution:           
       Keywords:                |   Work issues:           
Report Upstream:  N/A           |     Reviewers:           
        Authors:                |     Merged in:           
   Dependencies:                |      Stopgaps:           
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Comment (by stephen):

 There were some old instructions that pjeremy had on how to build sage,
 and some of those are still necessary.

 1.  FreeBSD comes with a totally incompatible version of make, so you have
 to link make to gmake in $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin.

 2.  You also have to build the FreeBSD version of gcc47 and atlas.  And
 you need to put wrappers to gcc, gfortran and g++ in SAGE_ROOT/local/bin.

 3.  I did try building the gcc that comes with sage, and that worked.  But
 first it has to build mpir, and unfortunately the standard gcc that comes
 with FreeBSD-8.x broke.  I haven't tried clang which comes with
 FreeBSD-9.x.  gcc46 was capable of building mpir, but it seemed like a bad
 deal to build gcc46 just to build one of the prerequisites for building
 the sage version of gcc.

 4.  The sage version of atlas failed to work.  I didn't explore this issue
 too far, because the FreeSBD version of atlas works.  But it might well be
 #9600, so don't close it yet.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/14491#comment:19>
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