Re: numerix portability: question
Hello,
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:15:38AM +0200, Samuel Mimram wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have access to some sparc machines. If you tell me what to do (some
> examples / tests to compile?) I can test whether it runs or not on this
> architecture (I cannot give you an account since those machines are
> firewalled).
>
> Regards,
>
> Sam.
>
Thank you for your kind offers,
I just corrected numerix enough to have it working with findlib.
The step to follow is to check out the svn ( trunk ) and going through
the exemples dir and link with
ocamlfind ocamlopt -linkpkg -package numerix -o X X.ml
and run the test ( i test pi.ml, simple.ml ).
Thank you
Kind regard
Sylvain Le Gall
>
>
> Le Mon, 10 May 2004 21:58:40 +0200 "Sylvain LE GALL"
> <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org> a écrit :
>
> > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:53:40PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > > Recently,
> > > on the ocaml mailing list, there has been a thread about different
> > > Bignum implementation. Michel Quercia, numerix maintainer, stated
> > > that numerix is not portable and works only on x86 platform:
> > >
> > > -- Numerix is my baby, so I'll let other users say if it has
> > > merits. Same schemeas GMP (choose a suitable algorithm depending
> > > on the sizes of the inputs), without the double-GC problem. The
> > > drawback is portability : works on x86/Linux.
> > >
> > > I haven't tried to use numerix debian package, but I'm a bit puzzled
> > > by the fact that numerix package is Architecture: any. So my
> > > question to Sylvain, Mike and Medwards (latest changers of the
> > > package): have I overlooked something or there is a big problem(TM)
> > > with debian numeric debian package?
> > >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I don't have a different arch at hand, so i cannot try it.
> >
> > However, the buildd log show that it seems to build on most
> > platform... ( doesn't imply that it runs, but it is the only hint i
> > have )
> >
> > Kind regard
> > Sylvain Le Gall
> >
> >
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