pari-2.4.3.svn-12577.p9 incorrectly checks for the shared library on Cygwin

[Mike Hansen]

In spkg-install, the following code should check for "libpari.dll" on Cygwin.

if [ "$UNAME" = "Darwin" ]; then
    pari_shlib="libpari.dylib"
else
    pari_shlib="libpari.so"
fi

The (trivial) fix is here: ​http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/dima/packages/pari-2.4.3.alpha.p6.spkg

[Dima Pasechnik]

Should one work with the current pari spkg, i.e.pari-2.4.3.alpha.p5 ?

[Jeroen Demeyer]

Replying to dimpase:

Should one work with the current pari spkg, i.e.pari-2.4.3.alpha.p5 ?

Yes. However, I am working on a new PARI spkg at #11130 (still needs work currently). I could merge this change into that new PARI spkg.

[Dima Pasechnik]

Replying to jdemeyer:

Replying to dimpase:

Should one work with the current pari spkg, i.e.pari-2.4.3.alpha.p5 ?

Yes. However, I am working on a new PARI spkg at #11130 (still needs work currently). I could merge this change into that new PARI spkg.

sure, please do --- it's just a couple of lines in the spkg-install

[Jeroen Demeyer]

I put your changes into my new spkg ​http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/pari-2.4.4.svn13151.p0.spkg but this ticket (i.e. your change) still needs to be reviewed by somebody using Cygwin.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

Dima's spkg worked on XP for me - PARI built. And the part of the spkg diff at #11130 looks correct.

Is that enough for a positive review?

[Mike Hansen]

Yep.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

It would be really helpful to have this in Sage 4.7.2 fairly early on so that we could have building Sage on Cygwin automatically a goal for an early alpha of 4.7.2. Would it be okay to change the milestone to 4.7.2 if #11130 isn't going to be merged particularly soon?

[Leif Leonhardy]

Replying to kcrisman:

It would be really helpful to have this in Sage 4.7.2 fairly early on so that we could have building Sage on Cygwin automatically a goal for an early alpha of 4.7.2.

I've based a p7 spkg at #11605 (which hopefully gets into Sage 4.7.1 because it fixes a critical error in spkg-install) on the p6 from here, i.e. it includes Dima's harmless changes.

If my spkg gets merged, this ticket can be closed as fixed.