#10000: GSL library fails to install on AIX 5.3
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: drkirkby
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.6
Component: AIX or HP-UX ports | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: Not yet reported upstream;
Will do shortly.
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by leif):
Replying to [comment:7 drkirkby]:
> But one has to wonder why it's not taken care of in the GSL source code.
It would be easy for the GSL developers to check if {{{fprnd_t}}} is
defined or not in the configure script.
True.
> * We apply readline on some linux versions but not on all OpenSUSE
versions
That's because they decided to '''dynamically''' link {{{/bin/sh}}} (or
{{{/bin/bash}}}) against {{{libreadline}}}, which is a bad idea. So the
shell might break in case a less capable version is found (first) in e.g.
{{{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}}. (Proper versioning would also avoid this.)
> * We use iconv on Solaris, HP-UX and Cygwin but not Linux or OS X.
Because the assumption is that {{{iconv}}} is either broken or missing on
those platforms.
> * We patch {{{paripriv.h}}} on OS X and Solaris, but in different ways.
Not true. Same patched file, just avoids a name clash with {{{ECHO}}} on
those two systems. Not an upstream problem, since as the name suggests
it's not intended to be installed / used outside the PARI sources.
> * etc etc etc.
True. ;-) (There are packages I think could and should be made
prerequisites, which would avoid some trouble.)
> I prefer the {{{autoconf}}} approach of actually '''testing''' what is
defined or not, rather than us making exceptions for this platform or that
platform.
Yes, but in general work-arounds made in Sage should be obsoleted by later
upstream releases. (This is of course not always the case, and as seen
above, some changes aren't upstream problems.)
> [...] I've no idea if that is necessary on anything other than AIX 5.3.
The snippet from GSL's {{{INSTALL}}} suggests it's not an AIX problem, but
rather one of GCC.
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