While building SAGE 4.1.1 on a AMD Phenom II running Fedora 11, GCC 4.4.1 will hang the machine when compiling “base3.c” of PARI. Apparently it was sucking up all the available memory.
According to this thread, it happens on Ubuntu 9.10 too and the solution is to compile with -O1 instead of -O3 optimization. Unfortunately it wasn’t obvious (to me, at least) how to make GCC use -O1 specifically for PARI only.
Digging around in SAGE’s build system, I figured it could be done by repacking the PARI spkg with a modified “get_cc” script:
cd sage-4.1.1/spkg/standard tar jxf pari-2.3.3.p1.spkg sed 's/OPTFLAGS=-O3/OPTFLAGS=-O1/g' \ pari-2.3.3.p1/src/config/get_cc > get_cc mv get_cc pari-2.3.3.p1/src/config/get_cc mv pari-2.3.3.p1.spkg pari-2.3.3.p1.spkg.orig tar jcf pari-2.3.3.p1.spkg pari-2.3.3.p1
After that, I was able to compile SAGE using its standard build procedure. Admittedly this is a quick hack. A better solution may be to set OPTFLAGS according to the version of GCC used.
Updates: According to this thread, it is fixed in Ubuntu Karmic.
thesweeheng's weblog 
20 September, 2009 at 1:27 am
The third line (“sed”) in your instructions is truncated in my browser – firefox. It should be:
sed ‘s/OPTFLAGS=-O3/OPTFLAGS=-O1/g’ pari-2.3.3.p1/src/config/get_cc >get_cc
I hope the comment box doesn’t munge this up, it should be all on one line.
This worked for me. Thanks for helping me through this build.
Bob
20 September, 2009 at 4:03 am
Thanks for pointing that out! I’ve edited the line to make it more obvious.