[Debian-science-sagemath] plans to package primecount (the C++ library)

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi, I am getting confused.

What the following command gives:
# ldd primecount

Otherwise, can you build primecount against the library distributed in the primesieve package ?

Cheers,
Jerome


On 19/11/2021 17:34, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 4:28 PM Dima Pasechnik <dimpase at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jerome,
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 4:16 PM Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> It looks like primecount and primesieve are two different projects
>>> maintained by the same author.
>>
>> yes - and primecount is using primesieve
>>
>> By default primecount just vendors primesieve, if built from source.
>> But it's possible to tell it not to do so, by using
>> -DBUILD_LIBPRIMESIEVE=OFF
>> option in the cmake call.
> 
> so the following works:
> suppose you have checked out
> primesieve/
> and
> primcount/
> 
> cd primesieve
> cmake . -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_STATIC_LIBS=OFF
> make && sudo make install
> 
> cd ../primcount
> cmake . -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_STATIC_LIBS=OFF -DBUILD_LIBPRIMESIEVE=OFF
> make # this only builds primecount
> sudo make install
> sudo ldconfig # cause cmake is a bit silly here
> cd
> primecount 1000000000 # test - almost instant
> 50847534


> 
> HTH
> Dima
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> HTH
>> Dima
>>
>>> Jerome
>>>
>>> On 19/11/2021 17:11, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I am maintaining the Debian package primesieve.
>>>> Let me know if primecount is part of primesieve in some way.
>>>> I might miss some stuff at one stage. who knows.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jerome
>>>>
>>>> On 19/11/2021 16:04, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>>>> Sage is only using libprimecount
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, 15:02 Dima Pasechnik, <dimpase at gmail.com <mailto:dimpase at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>      On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 2:51 PM Julien Puydt <julien.puydt at gmail.com <mailto:julien.puydt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>       >
>>>>>       > Le vendredi 19 novembre 2021 à 15:39 +0100, Julien Puydt a écrit :
>>>>>       > > Le vendredi 19 novembre 2021 à 13:10 +0000, Dima Pasechnik a écrit :
>>>>>       > > > Several distros package primecount:
>>>>>       > > > https://repology.org/project/primecount/versions <https://repology.org/project/primecount/versions>
>>>>>       > > > - and SageMath is about to update it and make standard.
>>>>>       > > > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25009 <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25009>
>>>>>       > > >
>>>>>       > > > Any plans for packaging it in Debian? It only needs a standard C++
>>>>>       > > > toolchain and cmake.
>>>>>       > > > (I can have a go at it, if someone provides some onboarding etc).
>>>>>       > >
>>>>>       > >
>>>>>       > > I had only checked the wanted packages -- but we have primesieve
>>>>>       > > already:
>>>>>       > >
>>>>>       > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/primesieve <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/primesieve>
>>>>>       > >
>>>>>       > > isn't it the one?
>>>>>
>>>>>      primesieve (i.e. libprimesieve) is used by primecount (which in turn uses
>>>>>      libprimecount).
>>>>>
>>>>>      Installing primecount  (git repo) from source gives one libraries
>>>>>      libprime[sieve,count], and
>>>>>      executable primecount
>>>>>
>>>>>      I have not looked into ways to unvendor libprimesieve from primecount.
>>>>>      I guess if it's done, then it's done "cmake way" - cmake has its own
>>>>>      concept of (source?) packages IMHO.
>>>>>
>>>>>      HTH
>>>>>      Dima
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>       >
>>>>>       > Ah, but the same upstream has:
>>>>>       >
>>>>>       > - primesieve, which is packaged ;
>>>>>       >
>>>>>       > - primecount, which might not be, but looks like it provides a
>>>>>       > libprimesieve too.
>>>>>       >
>>>>>       > What does sagemath need exactly? If it's the lib, we might already have
>>>>>       > it... or not!
>>>>>       >
>>>>>       > I have to admit I'm a bit confused.
>>>>>       >
>>>>>       > Cheers,
>>>>>       >
>>>>>       > J.Puydt
>>>>>       >
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