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On 16-11-2011 16:34:42 +0100, Burcin Erocal wrote: |
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> I've been developing a (math oriented) scientific software distribution |
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> [1] based on gentoo-prefix and sage-on-gentoo [2]. This relies on the |
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> compiler and toolchain on the host instead of building everything from |
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> scratch. Progress is rather slow, since I don't have much time to work |
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> on this, but it's getting there. |
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> [1] https://bitbucket.org/burcin/sage-prefix |
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> [2] https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo |
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> It can build Sage [3] with all it's dependencies (modulo jmol - a java |
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> application for 3D graphs) on various linux distros. I don't have |
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> access to any OSX machines other than a 10.5 PPC box, where everything |
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> that doesn't need a fortran compiler works. I've had reports that OSX |
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> 10.6 is in a similar state. |
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If you'd use the Prefix toolchain, you could also do all fortran stuff |
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on OSX, since the Prefix gcc-apple has Fortran added :) |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |