#9343: upgrade pari to version 2.4.3
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Reporter: was |
Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement |
Status: new
Priority: major |
Milestone: sage-4.5.2
Component: packages |
Keywords:
Author: Robert Bradshaw, John Cremona, Jeroen Demeyer, William Stein |
Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: |
Merged:
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Comment(by drkirkby):
Replying to [comment:113 jdemeyer]:
> Replying to [comment:110 drkirkby]:
> > Have the other issues that are circumvented by hacks to spkg-install
been reported upstream?
>
> > That's a lot of patches to one program. How many of these issues have
been raised? Personally, I would be very tempted to remove these, and find
what fails. Otherwise maintenance of the package is going to be very
difficult.
>
> I agree that all the patches in config/* dealing with compiling PARI/GP
really are upstream issues and should be fixed there. Also, now that we
upgrade PARI to 2.4.3, it is not at all clear whether these patches are
still needed.
I got this email from Bill Allombert on the {{{Bug#1078: Pari, -fPIC and
Solaris}}} thread:
{{{
On 07/22/10 09:46 PM, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 07:33:45PM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>> The Sage developers will look forward to a snapshot were we can
>> disable the patches for Solaris and PPC.
>
> Well, the Sage PPC fix is wrong and the correct fix is in PARI 2.3.5
which was released
> in February, so I do not see why sage still carry it.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill.
>
}}}
So it seems we should remove the -fPIC patch for PPC Linux, and the -fPIC
patch for Solaris will be able to be removed later, but not yet.
IMHO, it would be better to remove all the patch (or just comment them out
for now), and put them back as and when they are needed, taking care
(where possible), to check if the bugs they are supposed to fix reoccur.
This is one of the more messy spkg-install files I've seen - though the
ATLAS one is pretty messy too!
Dave
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