New version of PARI/GP: 2.4.3 svn-12577

Relevant tickets

• 9343: PARI upgrade

• 9591: genus2reduction

• 9592: lcalc (see also 9775 for a later version of lcalc)

• 9722: PARI/GP build error on Fedora 13

Files

If you want to upgrade an existing Sage, you need the install 3 spkg's and apply 2 patches. Do this in order as in the list below. In particular, the genus2reduction spkg will not install without the new pari spkg.

• PARI spkg: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/pari-2.4.3.svn-12577.p4.spkg

• genus2reduction spkg: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/genus2reduction-0.3.p8.spkg

• lcalc spkg: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/lcalc-20100428-1.23.p2.spkg

• Patch for data/extcode: extcode_9343_combined3.patch

• Patch for devel/sage: sagelib_9343_combined7.patch

For reviewers

• Download sage-4.6.prealpha3.tar, which is a complete Sage distribution based on sage-4.5.3.alpha1. Just extract it, and type make. In this file, the following tickets have been merged:

  • 9343 (needs_work): PARI upgrade

  • 9591 (needs_review): genus2reduction

  • 9592 (needs_review): lcalc

  • 9750 (positive_review): Document that PARI no longer assumes more than GRH

  • 9636 (needs_review): Catch output from PARI in Sage

  • 9400 (needs_review): modify the NumberField constructor to pass in optional integer B such that all the internal pari routines will replace the discriminant by its gcd with B, making some things massively faster

    • This ticket is not strictly related to the PARI upgrade, but it changes a lot of code using PARI. It also fixes an issue with nfinit() and wraps some additional functions in sage/libs/pari/gen.pyx.

  • 9703 (closed): Doctest failures caused by non-working sympow on 32-bit Solaris x86 and 32-bit OpenSolaris

  • 9735 (closed): Numerical noise on sage/stats/hmm/chmm.pyx on both Solaris x86 and OpenSolaris x86

    • The above two tickets have nothing to with PARI, but they should make Sage work 100% on Solaris and OpenSolaris.

• The main issue seems to be making sure it actually compiles.

  • Once it compiles, you can run the PARI/GP test suite by doing

    •      env SAGE_CHECK=yes ./sage -f pari-2.4.3.svn-12577.p4.spkg

• For reference, these are the patches for the spkg's:

  • pari

  • genus2reduction (note that old genus2reduction.c file was not under revision control unfortunately)

  • lcalc

Debugging PARI/GP build errors

If the new pari spkg doesn't build, you should try building PARI/GP stand-alone (i.e. outside of Sage). You should download pari-2.4.3.svn-12577.p3.spkg and then type the following in a shell:

tar xjf pari-2.4.3.svn-12577.p3.spkg
cd pari-2.4.3.svn-12577.p3/src
./Configure --graphic=none
make gp

If this works, there is a bug in Sage's build process for PARI/GP. If this gives errors, this indicates an upstream issue with PARI/GP. In any case, any errors should be reported on the Sage trac.

Known issues

• Tuning (i.e. building with SAGE_PARI_tune=yes) is completely broken.

  • Upstream issue, reported as http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1089

  • Not essential for this ticket (tuning is disabled by default anyway).

• Build issues on Fedora 13: see 9722.