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From: | Dr. David Kirkby |
Subject: | Re: How can I test if the GNU or Sun linker is used? |
Date: | Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:34:44 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090218) |
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:I'd love to see a port to HP-UX, where I know at least one person is interested in Mathematical software, but the userbase is not large. Wolfram Research gave up development on AIX and IRIX many years ago, and HP-UX more recently.It seems that AIX on P-Series is still going strong and has a devoted user-base.Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
AIX tends not to be use by maths/science people. It tends to attract the financial sector more I think. If someone wanted to work on a port of Sage to AIX, I'm sure it would be welcome. Porting to other OS's tends to show up bugs.
Of all the OS's I know where there is no porting effort made, HP-UX and NetBSD are probably the most likely candidates for someone getting interested in porting to that platform. Solaris semi-works, though it needs a bit of care in building, and is not without some issues.
A summary of the Solaris issues that remain are at: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6710 Number 5 might interest you.
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