Disable assembly code in libgcrypt on risky platforms.

[sagetrac-drkirkby]

Libgcrypt is a package which has some assembly code routines. An option to the configure script

--disable-asm 

will disable the use of assembly code. This is mandatory on some platforms such as OS X and 64-bit SPARC, and would appear to be desirable on others, unless we can be sure it works.

On my Sun Ultra 27, which has a quad core Xeon, running OpenSolaris 06/2009, libgrcypt would not build. The error message indicated it was related to the use of assembly code.

However, I believe libgcrypt did not cause an issue on 'disk.math', so I'm somewhat surprised it did on my Ultra 27. But I think it is safer to disable assembly code on all Solaris x86 systems.

I disabled the assembly code on 64-bit SPARC too, as I know that is broken - see #7127. Disabling the assembly code does not allow libgcrypt to be built as 64-bit code on Solaris, but the build does get further with the assembly code disabled. (It ultimately fails, as both 32-bit and 64-bit objects are created).

I also added some tests for other platforms (AIX, HP-UX, Tru64 and IRIX) and disabled assembly language on them all except HP-UX, where I could verify it did not cause any problems.

Hence assembler code is disabled on

• OS X (both 32 and 64-bit)
• Solaris x86 (both 32 and 64-bit)
• Solaris SPARC (32-bit only)
• IRIX (as a precaution, as untested)
• AIX (as a precaution, as untested)
• Tru64 (as a precaution, as untested)
  '''
  Assembly code is enabled on:'''
• Linux
• Solaris SPARC (32-bit only)
• HP-UX
• Anything else, not mentioned above. This would include Cygwin.

The updated package has been tested on

• sage.math
• bsd.math
• Sun Ultra 27, Intel Xeon processor, running OpenSolaris (x86)
• Sun Blade 2000, SPARC processor in 32-bit mode.
• Sun Blade 2000, SPARC processor in 64-bit mode. The code does not build fully in this case, as explained above.
• HP C3600 running HP-UX 11.11. The code builds fully.

It should be noted, the HP C3600 uses a PA-RISC processor. More modern HP-UX machines use the Itanium processor. These would certainly not use the same assembly code.

The code may be found here.

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/Solaris-fixes/libgcrypt-1.4.4.p1

Dave

Component: porting

Author: David Kirkby

Reviewer: Mike Hansen

Merged: sage-4.2.1.alpha0

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/7373

[mwhansen]

Merged: sage-4.2.1.alpha0

[mwhansen]

Author: David Kirkby

[mwhansen]

comment:2

Looks good to me.

[mwhansen]

Reviewer: Mike Hansen