#7861: pynac not building on Open Solaris x64 (32-bit/64-bit mixup)
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: drkirkby
Type: defect | Status: positive_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.5.2
Component: solaris | Keywords:
Author: David Kirkby | Upstream: None of the above - read trac for
reasoning.
Reviewer: John Palmieri | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by drkirkby):
Replying to [comment:12 jhpalmieri]:
> Is this positive review okay? I don't have access to an OpenSolaris
machine, but I've tested it on lots of other platforms.
I don't believe anyone can fault your positive review due to the fact you
have not tested on !OpenSolaris.
First !OpenSolaris is not an officially supported system. So that in
itself is good enough reason not to fault you. But you have tested on
several officially supported systems, as well as some unsupported ones. As
you note, it does improve the situation on 64-bit SPARC and 64-bit x86. In
fact, virtually all the changes I think that will be needed on one 64-bit
variant of Solaris will be needed on another.
Secondly, I've attached a log of the build on !OpenSolaris, so it can be
seen working there.
A lot of reviewers are a lot less thorough than you John!
I've had the odd people review my HP-UX patches too. I don't think anyone
other than Minh has access to HP-UX. (Some of the MPFR developers have
used my machine too)
> I may try to install an !OpenSolaris virtual machine, but I don't know
how hard it will be to install all of the relevant software (like an up-
to-date gcc).
!OpenSolaris has a package manager with a GUI interface which you can use
to install software. By default, it gets packages from the offical Sun
resource, which does not tend to have very up to update packages. But one
can switch to the development server, and install from there, where there
is a wider choice of packages.
One issue I have hit is that on my laptop (which has a 64-bit processor),
I installed a 64-bit version of !OpenSolaris as the host operating system.
But due to some limitations in the BIOS, which Sony kindly added, they
have disabled the instructions which allow one to install a 64-bit guest
operating system. While that's not a problem with my XP installation, my
Solaris 10 installation is limited to 32-bits when on my laptop.
On my desktop, there's no such limitation, so I can install 64-bit guest
operating systems.
Anyway, thank you for the review. I need to sort out zn_poly (#9358). I
have a patch for that. Just need to upload it and mark it for review.
Dave
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