#10339: Simplify spkg/pipestatus
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: GeorgSWeber
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.6.1
Component: build | Keywords: pipestatus Makefile
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by GeorgSWeber):
Replying to [comment:8 leif]:
> Replying to [comment:6 jdemeyer]:
> > Replying to [comment:1 leif]:
> > > IMHO Bash 3.0 is old enough to make it a prerequisite anyway.
> >
> > -1 to this idea, since OS X 10.4 has bash version 2.
>
> I don't care about it since it is dead old and only causes problems. If
someone is able to build Sage on MacOS X 10.4, Bash 3.x or 4.x should also
build, be it an optional Sage package for boot-strapping.
>
Well, there are people that do care about OS X 10.4. Since (at least)
Sage-3.4 till the current Sage-4.6.alpha2, this is an officially supported
platform with the regular binary distributions. If Harald (who is able to
look at the statistics) tells me nobody downloads these anymore, I'll stop
providing them. OTOH, the inclusion of bash as a Sage dependency has been
discussed before. (Mainly due to the problems if the system bash is built
to use readline as dynamic librariy, and blows up if the readline lib
provided by Sage is older, but is found first in the library search path
due to the Sage specific LD_LIBRARY_PATH settings, as e.g. in Arch Linux
and younger SuSE distributions.)
But the conclusion was always that we don't want to have bash as a core
dependency to be shipped with Sage (be it only for a few OSes).
Cheers,
Georg
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