Martin,
Your idea that Paul's build problem was caused by boost was right. Maybe we can figure out a way to turn off using boost completely by default for Singular. Carl: Paul has some suggestions for changing how real numbers print below. What do you think? -- William ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul Zimmermann Date: Oct 21, 2007 1:25 AM Subject: Re: singular build issue To: William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: sage-devel@googlegroups.com > It looks like maybe there is an issue with the system-wide boost > you have installed. Thanks William. Moving /usr/include/boost to /usr/include/boost.old and typing again make in SAGE_ROOT did it. You can recommend it to users who encounter the same problem. bash-3.00$ sage ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | SAGE Version 2.8.7, Release Date: 2007-10-15 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some feedback: - in case one redefines DESTDIR in make install, one gets strange paths: $ make install -n DESTDIR=/usr/local/sage-2.8.7 ... cp /usr/local/sage-2.8.7/usr/local/sage/sage /usr/local/sage-2.8.7/usr/bin/ (I would expect at least 'usr' to disappear.) - some f-p values are printed like integers, which may confuse the user (especially if one copies them with the mouse): sage: 2.0^46 70368744177664.0 sage: 2.0^47 140737488355328 I would expect '140737488355328.' or '1.40737488355328e14' in the 2nd case. By the way, typing 140737488355328.0 outputs itself, which is inconsistent, since 140737488355328.0-2.0^47 gives 0.0000000000000000. Compare also: sage: 2.0^99 633825300114115000000000000000 sage: 2.0^100 1.26765060022823e30 My 2 cents, Paul -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
