OS X 10.6

[William Stein]

Hi,

There was a new release of OS X today, called "OS X 10.6".    The install DVD, which cost $30, also includes a new version of XCode (build 5646), which uses gcc 4.2.1 by default.

1. Sage binaries built on 10.5 appear to work fine on OS X 10.6.  Yeah.

2. Sage itself fails to build from source on 10.6.  I just started a 64-bit build and so far the only failure was readline, which I easily fixed by just upgrading to the latest readline (version 6.0) and getting rid of the old workarounds for using 5.2.   I don't know how many other problems there will be. I've opened a ticket for this if anybody else is interested:

   http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6849

My instincts are that this "port" is going to be really easy, since 10.6 is a pretty incremental upgrade.

 -- William



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William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

[Dr. David Kirkby]

William Stein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There was a new release of OS X today, called "OS X 10.6". The
> install DVD, which cost $30, also includes a new version of XCode (build
> 5646), which uses gcc 4.2.1 by default.
>
> 1. Sage binaries built on 10.5 appear to work fine on OS X 10.6. Yeah.
>
> 2. Sage itself fails to build from source on 10.6. I just started a
> 64-bit build and so far the only failure was readline, which I easily
> fixed by just upgrading to the latest readline (version 6.0) and getting
> rid of the old workarounds for using 5.2. I don't know how many other
> problems there will be. I've opened a ticket for this if anybody else is
> interested:
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6849
>
> My instincts are that this "port" is going to be really easy, since 10.6
> is a pretty incremental upgrade.
>
> -- William

Your package for readline builds on Solaris, but here's an improved one,
which gets rid of some of the other issues in that spkg-install.

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/Solaris-fixes/readline-6.0/readline-6.0.spkg