[gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[Andrey G. Grozin]

Hello *,

Could somebody with amd64 check if sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414 
compiles on this arch? You'll have to keyword it. Upstream says it should 
compile.

Andrey

Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[Kacper Kowalik]

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On 12/21/11 11:39, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> Hello *,
> 
> Could somebody with amd64 check if sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414
> compiles on this arch? You'll have to keyword it. Upstream says it
> should compile.

It does and passes test suite. Though it doesn't respect libdir:

/dev/shm/portage/sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414/image/usr/lib/reduce/reduce.fonts/README

Judging by the content it shouldn't be libdir in the first place, rather
/usr/share...
Cheers,
Kacper



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Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[Miguel de Val-Borro]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:01:18PM +0100, Kacper Kowalik wrote:
> On 12/21/11 11:39, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> > Hello *,
> > 
> > Could somebody with amd64 check if sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414
> > compiles on this arch? You'll have to keyword it. Upstream says it
> > should compile.
> 
> It does and passes test suite. Though it doesn't respect libdir:
> 
> /dev/shm/portage/sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414/image/usr/lib/reduce/reduce.fonts/README
> 
> Judging by the content it shouldn't be libdir in the first place, rather
> /usr/share...

There is also a warning about an unrecognized configure option:
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-gui

Here is the full build log on amd64:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/523967/

Miguel

Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[Andrey G. Grozin]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Miguel de Val-Borro wrote:
> There is also a warning about an unrecognized configure option:
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-gui
This package is a QA nightmare :-( It bundles modified sources of 
x11-libs/fox (it does not compile with the system fox). First, it compiles 
this bundled fox, and installs it somewhere inside the build tree. Then it 
configures csl (and thus finds this freshly installed fox) and compiles 
it. Then it compiles reduce with csl. During this process, autoconf is 
called from make ("maintainer mode") many times. And each time, the 
arguments of the top-level configure are passed to all configure scripts 
in subdirectories. --with-gui is needed by one configure script (this is 
controlled by the USE flag X; with -X, fox is not built, and csl and 
reduce work at the command line only). But this --with-gui is passed to 
all configure scripts in various directories (fox sources, for example), 
and these scripts don't recognize this option. Ugly, but this works.

> Here is the full build log on amd64:
> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/523967/
Many thanks. Looks OK.

I really want reduce to become more popular. There are only 3 free 
computer algebra systems: maxima, reduce, axiom (I don't count toys like 
yacas; and axiom has forked into axiom, openaxiom, and fricas). reduce is 
mature (from late 60s), powerful and very efficient. So, I have to live 
somehow with the weirdness of its current build system.

I suppose I can keyword it ~amd64, so that more users will have a chance 
to install it.

Andrey

Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64 (fwd)

[Andrey G. Grozin]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Kacper Kowalik wrote:
>> Could somebody with amd64 check if sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414
>> compiles on this arch? You'll have to keyword it. Upstream says it
>> should compile.
> 
> It does and passes test suite. Though it doesn't respect libdir:
> 
> /dev/shm/portage/sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414/image/usr/lib/reduce/reduce.fonts/README
> 
> Judging by the content it shouldn't be libdir in the first place, rather
> /usr/share...
Many thanks for checking.

csl-based reduce, and csl, are really strange. reduce is a compiled binary, and 
it needs to have reduce.img *in the same directory* (same for csl). Both of 
them also want to see reduce.doc and reduce.fonts also in the same directory, 
if they are started in the gui mode (in the command-line mode reduce.fonts and 
reduce.doc are not needed). So, all these files and directories should be 
together somewhere. And not in /usr/share, because reduce is a binary, and 
reduce.img is also processor-dependent, as far as I know. So, I choose 
/usr/lib/reduce; do you have better suggestions? Should it be 
/usr/lib64/reduce on amd64?

Moreover, symlinking /usr/lib/reduce -> /usr/bin/redcsl does not work: the 
program tries to find reduce.img in /usr/bin, and fails. The only way I've 
found is a 2-line script in /usr/bin which execs /usr/lib/reduce/reduce.

Thanks again,
Andrey

Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[Burcin Erocal]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:53:27 +0700 (NOVT)
"Andrey G. Grozin" <A.G.Grozin@inp.nsk.su> wrote:

> I really want reduce to become more popular. There are only 3 free 
> computer algebra systems: maxima, reduce, axiom (I don't count toys
> like yacas; and axiom has forked into axiom, openaxiom, and fricas).
> reduce is mature (from late 60s), powerful and very efficient. So, I
> have to live somehow with the weirdness of its current build system.

There is also Sage:

http://sagemath.org/

It's far from a "toy" or a specialized system (such as pari/gp,
Singular, Macaulay2, etc.). So it should be mentioned.


Cheers,
Burcin

Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[Christopher Schwan]

On Wednesday 21 December 2011 12:13:17 Miguel de Val-Borro wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:01:18PM +0100, Kacper Kowalik wrote:
> > On 12/21/11 11:39, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> > > Hello *,
> > > 
> > > Could somebody with amd64 check if sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414
> > > compiles on this arch? You'll have to keyword it. Upstream says it
> > > should compile.
> > 
> > It does and passes test suite. Though it doesn't respect libdir:
> > 
> > /dev/shm/portage/sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414/image/usr/lib/reduce/re
> > duce.fonts/README
> > 
> > Judging by the content it shouldn't be libdir in the first place, rather
> > /usr/share...
> 
> There is also a warning about an unrecognized configure option:
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-gui
> 
> Here is the full build log on amd64:
> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/523967/
> 
> Miguel

I also experienced a (random) build failure, see 
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/524020/ . I guess the build failure is caused by 
parallel make, using MAKEOPTS=-j1 I was able to compile reduce. This showed 
some QA failures, see http://paste.pocoo.org/show/524007/ .

Christopher

Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[Andrey G. Grozin]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Burcin Erocal wrote:
> There is also Sage:
>
> http://sagemath.org/
>
> It's far from a "toy" or a specialized system (such as pari/gp,
> Singular, Macaulay2, etc.). So it should be mentioned.
Of course, it's not a toy. To a large degree, it's a large collection of 
existing software, "Gentoo of maths", with its own package system. And it 
includes maxima, fricas, pari/gp, gap, singular, R, and many other 
systems. They are all integrated together to some degree, so, sage is 
somewhere in between a monolythic CAS (maxima, reduce, fricas,...) and 
just a collection.

It would be interesting to make reduce one of its packages, too.

Andrey

Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64 (fwd)

[Kacper Kowalik]

On 21.12.2011 15:03, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Kacper Kowalik wrote:
>>> Could somebody with amd64 check if sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414
>>> compiles on this arch? You'll have to keyword it. Upstream says it
>>> should compile.
>>
>> It does and passes test suite. Though it doesn't respect libdir:
>>
>> /dev/shm/portage/sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414/image/usr/lib/reduce/reduce.fonts/README
>>
>>
>> Judging by the content it shouldn't be libdir in the first place, rather
>> /usr/share...
> Many thanks for checking.
>
> csl-based reduce, and csl, are really strange. reduce is a compiled
> binary, and it needs to have reduce.img *in the same directory* (same
> for csl). Both of them also want to see reduce.doc and reduce.fonts also
> in the same directory,

That's a snippet from a build log:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. 
-I/var/tmp/portage/sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414/work/reduce-20110414/csl/cslbase 
  -Dfontsdir=reduce.fonts -I/usr/include/freetype2 
-DBINDIR=/usr/local/bin -DPKGDATADIR=/usr/local/share/reduce 
-march=core2 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -I/usr/include/freetype2 
-fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -Wall   -MT arith01.o -MD -MP -MF 
.deps/arith01.Tpo -c -o arith01.o 
/var/tmp/portage/sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414/work/reduce-20110414/csl/cslbase/arith01.c

I haven't looked at the code but I have strong feeling that precompiler 
directives:
  fontsdir
  BINDIR
  PKGDATADIR
may help you ;) It looks that removing 'local' is all you need. Then 
place everything which is not a binary and not a lib in usr/share/reduce

> Should it be /usr/lib64/reduce on amd64?
In principle you should always use /usr/$(get_libdir) from mutlilib.eclass.
Cheers,
Kacper

Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[Andrey G. Grozin]

Many thanks to everybody,

I've just committed reduce-20110414-r1 with ~amd64. Could somebody check 
that it actually compiles on amd64?

Andrey

Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[Honza Macháček]

Dne 12/22/2011 01:26 PM, Andrey G. Grozin píše:
> I've just committed reduce-20110414-r1 with ~amd64. Could somebody check 
> that it actually compiles on amd64?

Compiles and seems to work for me.

Portage 2.1.10.41 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r1,
3.0.4-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
System uname:
Linux-3.0.4-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E6750_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:15:01 +0000

Thanks for your work.

Honza Macháček

Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[Miguel de Val-Borro]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 07:26:21PM +0700, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> Many thanks to everybody,
> 
> I've just committed reduce-20110414-r1 with ~amd64. Could somebody check 
> that it actually compiles on amd64?

I have upgraded from reduce-20110414 to reduce-20110414-r1 and got  a file
collision during merging:

 * sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414
 *      /usr/lib64/reduce/reduce.doc
 *      /usr/lib64/reduce/reduce.fonts
 * 
 * Package 'sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414-r1' NOT merged due to file
 * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole
 * content of the above message.

This is the build log for reduce-20110414-r1:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/524580/

If reduce-20110414 is unmerged first, then the new revision builds fine.

Thanks,
Miguel

Re: [gentoo-science] sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

[Andrey G. Grozin]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Miguel de Val-Borro wrote:
> I have upgraded from reduce-20110414 to reduce-20110414-r1 and got  a file
> collision during merging:
>
> * sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414
> *      /usr/lib64/reduce/reduce.doc
> *      /usr/lib64/reduce/reduce.fonts
> *
> * Package 'sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414-r1' NOT merged due to file
> * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole
> * content of the above message.
Yes, I saw this behaviour. I think this must be a bug in portage. The 
directories /usr/lib64/reduce/reduce.doc and 
/usr/lib64/reduce/reduce.fonts belong to the old version of reduce, which 
is being removed during this install. Why are they triggering file 
collision??

Andrey