On Dec 26, 2007 5:23 PM, Rob Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I found out that I had the line "set noclobber" in both my .bashrc and > .bash_profile files. Removing that cleared up the problem. I have no > clue why I ever put added the line in the first place, nor why it > would have caused a problem.--Rob
Thanks. I've made this trac #1601: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1601 We'll either come up with a workaround or at least add something to the FAQ and/or README. William > > > Hi, William, > > > > I have had trouble getting the most recent versions of sage to > > compile. (This is Mac OS X 10.4.11, gcc 4.0.1, 5367.) My problem > > started with 2.8.15, and continued with 2.9. Eventually, I found out > > that something (I can't figure out what just yet) is returning the > > string "noclobber", which in turn is being passed along as an argument > > to local/bin/sage-spkg. > > > > After the line > > > > PKG_BASE=`echo "$PKG_NAME" | sed -e "s/-.*//"` > > > > I added > > > > if [ $PKG_SRC == "noclobber" ]; then > > exit 0 > > fi > > > > which cleared up the problem; otherwise, sage tries (and obviously > > fails) to compile noclobber.spkg. > > > > I wish that I had the time to track down which environment variable or > > alias is causing the problem. This has something to do with > > redirecting output, and specifically 2>&1 as an option to some > > command. I never quite worked out where the problem is, and I don't > > think that my work-around could be harmful, so I suggest that you > > include it in the next release.--Rob > > > > > > -- > Rob Gross (617) 552-3758 > Department of Mathematics http://fmwww.bc.edu/gross/ > Boston College [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3806 > -- 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
