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[sage-devel] Re: 2.5.0alpha2: sympow trouble on cygwin: msg#01651

Subject: [sage-devel] Re: 2.5.0alpha2: sympow trouble on cygwin


On May 6, 5:33 pm, "William Stein" <wst...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/6/07, mabshoff <Michael.Absh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>

Hello,

>
> > While libsubgular now passes the tests on cygwin sympow does not. The
> > are more failing tests, but this one is the first I got around to:
>

Sorry, libsingular still doesn't pass all the tests, yet. I will do
something else for the next couple hours, maybe Martin will figure it
out.

> You should feel free to not worry too much about this, since:
>
>    (1) Sympow has never worked on cygwin.
>

ok

>    (2) Sympow is a *very* specialized program -- just for computing
> special values of symmetric power L-functions of elliptic curves.
>
>    (3) The author of sympow (Mark Watkins) doesn't use Cygwin and does
> use whatever tricks he can for speed that might not work on Cygwin.
>
> There is one other thing that I know of that breaks on cygwin, which is
> one point-count example on an elliptic curve over a finite field (PARI
> fails in this case).

Interesting. Do you have the pari input so that I could have a look at
it with valgrind on Linux or was it already determined that it is a
compiler issue? Have you tried MinGW?

>
>
>


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