#9356: make SAGE_ATLAS_LIB work on Solaris
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Reporter: jhpalmieri | Owner: drkirkby
Type: defect | Status: positive_review
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-4.5
Component: solaris | Keywords:
Author: John Palmieri | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Changes (by drkirkby):
* status: needs_review => positive_review
Comment:
It looks OK, so positive review.
I'm a bit suspicious of whether deleting the shared libraries was the
right thing to do. #5024 deleted them as they were not working, but it
would appear the GNU linker was used to convert from static to dynamic
libraries. Given the GNU linker never has worked that well on Solaris, I'm
not totally surprised they did not work.
I obviously looked at this at some point in the past to get the shared
libraries to be created:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_thread/thread/963996de0269c17a/
It seems I wasted my time, as they are later deleted anyway, which I did
not realise.
I suspect the shared ones might actually work now. I think at a later
date, when we have the test suites working, we should revisit whether
deleting the shared libraries and using the much larger static ones is a
good idea. (There's a comment in SPKG.txt about the shared one being 100
KB and the static one 8 MB.)
But this looks good. It solves the problem. But long-term I think there
might be a better solution.
Dave
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