#7484: update README.txt to require Fortran as a pre-requisite for compiling
Sage
on Linux
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Reporter: jason | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.4.3
Component: build | Keywords:
Author: Jason Grout, Minh Van Nguyen | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: David Kirkby | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by kcrisman):
README.txt was recently updated, so this will need to be rebased again.
Is the original problem still a problem, given the latest one?
With respect to drkirkby's comments, I think the following remain:
> * Line 22: says Sage is distributed under the GPL, but does say what
version. I believe it should be GPL 2 (or at your option any later
version).
This seems reasonable to change.
> * '''Lines 144 + 145. Again refers to a gFortran. Also, there is no
reason gfortran needs to be installed system wide. Someone can create
their own private copy of gcc with Fortran support.'''
I have no idea if this is true, but at any rate we still use the phrase
"system-wide" in line 137.
> * Line 299. I would change to simply Sage needs GCC >= 4.0.1
> * Line 300 seems a bit pointless, as long as we say Sage needs gcc
>=4.0.1
> * Line 301 can be removed, as it is totally impossible to build Sage
with that. The 'prereq' script will exit immediately with an error.
These three seem to be a matter of taste. As long as we accurately
document what Sage builds with, we might as well leave it alone. And
warnings of things that fail are good if they prevent people from wasting
time trying to make them fail :)
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