ecm: Elliptic curve method for integer factorization¶
Description¶
GMP-ECM - Elliptic Curve Method for Integer Factorization
Sources can be obtained from http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/ecm/
License¶
LGPL V3+
Upstream Contact¶
ecm-discuss@lists.gforge.inria.fr (requires subscription)
Dependencies¶
GMP/MPIR (Note: Python is *not* required for ordinary builds.)
GNU patch
Special Update/Build Instructions¶
GMP-ECM comes with a self-tuning feature; we could support that as an option ($SAGE_TUNE_*=yes) in the future.
ECM currently does not (by itself) use the CC and CFLAGS settings from ‘gmp.h’ since we pass (other) options in CFLAGS, and CC is set by Sage and might got set by the user. We now at least partially fix that such that “optimized” code generation options (‘-mcpu=…’, ‘-mtune=…’) are used by gcc. Of course a user can also manually enable them by setting the “global” CFLAGS to e.g. ‘-march=native’ on x86[_64] systems, or ‘-mcpu=…’ and ‘-mtune=…’ on other architectures where “native” isn’t supported. Note that this doesn’t affect the packages’ selection of processor- specific optimized [assembly] code. ‘spkg-install’ already reads the settings from Sage’s and also a system-wide GMP / MPIR now, but doesn’t (yet) use all of them. If SAGE_FAT_BINARY=”yes”, we should avoid too specific settings of “-mcpu=…”, and perhaps pass a more generic “–host=…” to ‘configure’. (MPIR honors ‘–enable-fat’ to some extent, but this option isn’t used on anything other than x86 / x86_64.)
We currently work around a linker bug on MacOS X 10.5 PPC (with GCC 4.2.1) which breaks ‘configure’ if debug symbols are enabled. This *might* get fixed in later upstream releases.
We could save some space by removing the
src/build.vc10/
directory which isn’t used in Sage. (It gets probably more worth in case also directories / files for later versions of Microsoft Visual C get added.)
Type¶
standard
Version Information¶
package-version.txt:
7.0.4.p2
Equivalent System Packages¶
conda:
$ conda install ecm-devel
Debian/Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install ecm-devel
Fedora/Redhat/CentOS:
$ sudo yum install ecm-devel
freebsd:
$ sudo pkg install ecm-devel
macports: install the following packages: ecm-devel nix:
$ nix-env --install ecm-devel
void:
$ sudo xbps-install ecm-devel
See https://repology.org/project/ecm-devel/versions
If the system package is installed, ./configure will check whether it can be used.