Sage 64 bit OSX 10.5 build notes for Sage 3.4.2

Note: This page is outdated. Please check the Main OSX 64 bit porting page for the current status.

Build Instructions

Download the experimental fortran-OSX64-20090120.spkg and replace the fortran.spkg in Sage with this one.
update Singular.spkg via the instructions at ticket #5862
export SAGE64=yes
make
apply the patches from #5862 and #5929

Relevant tickers

#6025: Sage 3.4.2: doctest failure in sage/libs/pari/gen.pyx on 64 bit OSX (see below)
#6026: python.spkg: ctypes fails to build on 64 bit OSX
#6027: get_memory_usage() sucks performance wise on OSX

Binaries

A 64 bit OSX 10.5 MacIntel binary can be found in http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/OSX64/

Doctest problems

sage -t -long "devel/sage/sage/libs/pari/gen.pyx"           
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File "/Users/mabshoff/sage-3.4.2-64/devel/sage/sage/libs/pari/gen.pyx", line 8945:
    sage: pari.finitefield_init(7,2)
Exception raised:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/mabshoff/sage-3.4.2-64/local/bin/ncadoctest.py", line 1231, in run_one_test
        self.run_one_example(test, example, filename, compileflags)
      File "/Users/mabshoff/sage-3.4.2-64/local/bin/sagedoctest.py", line 38, in run_one_example
        OrigDocTestRunner.run_one_example(self, test, example, filename, compileflags)
      File "/Users/mabshoff/sage-3.4.2-64/local/bin/ncadoctest.py", line 1172, in run_one_example
        compileflags, 1) in test.globs
      File "<doctest __main__.example_291[4]>", line 1, in <module>
        pari.finitefield_init(Integer(7),Integer(2))###line 8945:
    sage: pari.finitefield_init(7,2)
    RuntimeError
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File "/Users/mabshoff/sage-3.4.2-64/devel/sage/sage/libs/pari/gen.pyx", line 8950:
    sage: pari.finitefield_init(2,3)
Exception raised:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/mabshoff/sage-3.4.2-64/local/bin/ncadoctest.py", line 1231, in run_one_test
        self.run_one_example(test, example, filename, compileflags)
      File "/Users/mabshoff/sage-3.4.2-64/local/bin/sagedoctest.py", line 38, in run_one_example
        OrigDocTestRunner.run_one_example(self, test, example, filename, compileflags)
      File "/Users/mabshoff/sage-3.4.2-64/local/bin/ncadoctest.py", line 1172, in run_one_example
        compileflags, 1) in test.globs
      File "<doctest __main__.example_291[5]>", line 1, in <module>
        pari.finitefield_init(Integer(2),Integer(3))###line 8950:
    sage: pari.finitefield_init(2,3)
    RuntimeError
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1 items had failures:
   2 of   6 in __main__.example_291
***Test Failed*** 2 failures.
For whitespace errors, see the file /Users/mabshoff/sage-3.4.2-64/tmp/.doctest_gen.py
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