Reagarding the patch: I just found out the hard way that for gdmodule one has to patch Setup.py.cygwin. Now it actually works if one invokes "make" in SAGE_ROOT:
--- Setup.py.cygwin.orig 2007-04-13 20:05:02.437500000 +0200 +++ Setup.py.cygwin 2007-04-13 20:05:17.312500000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ + # Setup for gdmodule 0.50 and later from distutils.core import setup, Extension @@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ # Try to identify our libraries want_libs = [ - "gd", "png", "z", "freetype", "libiconv" + "gd", "png", "z", "freetype", "iconv", "fl", "fontconfig" ] libs = filetest(libdirs, want_libs) @@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ if missing: print "WARNING: Missing", string.join(missing, ", "), "Libraries" -libs.append('libiconv') +libs.append('iconv') # hand-clean the libs The patch seems to get mangled in the google group, but comes out fine via EMail. Sorry for the screw-up :( Just in case: http://fsmath.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/~mabshoff/patches/SAGE-2.4.2-fix-gdmodule-on-cygwin.patch Cheers, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---