[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-07-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Bill Hart wrote: > Thanks for the detailed response. > > I think it is definitely a great goal to rely less on the GNU tools if > there are perfectly good native ones. Yes, I feel so too. There are many advantages to that. > Your comment on the Sun compiler giving better performance is an > int

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-07-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, William Stein wrote: > >>> Solaris does *not* ship with any GNU version of the 'cp' command. I >>> don't see why they should be needed, so I've made no attempt to build >>> them. Hence when something failed to find the flint library, I trace

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-07-01 Thread Bill Hart
Thanks for the detailed response. I think it is definitely a great goal to rely less on the GNU tools if there are perfectly good native ones. Your comment on the Sun compiler giving better performance is an interesting one. I have to admit that despite building MPIR on Solaris using Sun CC, eve

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, William Stein wrote: >> Solaris does *not* ship with any GNU version of the 'cp' command.  I >> don't see why they should be needed, so I've made no attempt to build >> them. Hence when something failed to find the flint library, I traced it >> to the use of the '-

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Bill Hart wrote: >> I'm confused about something. Don't we already have a Solaris port? Michael Abshoff got Sage to build and pass the entire test suite on one specific Solaris Sparc box using a custom toolchain including a custom top, c

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-07-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Bill Hart wrote: > I'm confused about something. Don't we already have a Solaris port? Or > am I just confused with the OSX port? Hi Bill, this is current view of the situation on Solaris SPARC - I don't know about x86/x64. Time permitting, I will look at x64 later. There is a port of Sage to

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-07-01 Thread Bill Hart
I'm confused about something. Don't we already have a Solaris port? Or am I just confused with the OSX port? I realise that there are some extra special issues with the T2 because the box came with very little in the way of toolchain. Am I right in saying you are porting to the Solaris toolchain

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-07-01 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: >> Jason Grout wrote: >>> Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >>> Since -a is the same as -dpR, you might also want to use at least -r >>> >>> http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?cp >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jason >> Thank you J

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Jason Grout wrote: >> Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >>> William Stein wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I noticed a problem when building 'sage-4.1.alpha2.spkg'. It complains > > ld: fatal:

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-06-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Jason Grout wrote: > Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Dr. David >>> Kirkby wrote: I noticed a problem when building 'sage-4.1.alpha2.spkg'. It complains ld: fatal: library -lflint: not found But the flint package ind

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-06-30 Thread Jason Grout
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Dr. David >> Kirkby wrote: >>> I noticed a problem when building 'sage-4.1.alpha2.spkg'. It complains >>> >>> ld: fatal: library -lflint: not found >>> >>> >>> But the flint package indicates it was installed. Howev

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-06-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Dr. David > Kirkby wrote: >> I noticed a problem when building 'sage-4.1.alpha2.spkg'. It complains >> >> ld: fatal: library -lflint: not found >> >> >> But the flint package indicates it was installed. However, when I tried >> to build flint

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-06-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Dr. David > Kirkby wrote: >> I noticed a problem when building 'sage-4.1.alpha2.spkg'. It complains >> >> ld: fatal: library -lflint: not found >> >> >> But the flint package indicates it was installed. However, when I tried >> to build flint

[sage-devel] Re: flint's use of the 'cp' command.

2009-06-30 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > I noticed a problem when building 'sage-4.1.alpha2.spkg'. It complains > > ld: fatal: library -lflint: not found > > > But the flint package indicates it was installed. However, when I tried > to build flint again, I see this error messa