On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:53 AM Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:21 AM Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 11:26, François Bissey <frp.bis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It looks like maxima.fas has not been built. Last time I saw that happen
> >> in sage-on-gentoo was because the patch to build it was missing.
> >> Not sure how it could happen on your setup, the log needs further
> >> inspection.
> >>
> >> > On 14/05/2021, at 21:18, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I have been installing sage-9.3 from the tarball on a few ubuntu
> >> > machines, just doing ./configure and then make. On one machine
> >> > running ubuntu 20.04.02 LTS maxima fails to build. I have attached
> >> > the log files.
> >> >
> >> > This is a machine on which I tried a few weeks ago to help the build
> >> > process by installing as many of the dependencies as possible. My
> >> > experience so far has been that this has caused so many things to go
> >> > wrong that I prefer the old way -- build everything -- since that just
> >> > takes more computer time, while the new way (so far) uses a lot more
> >> > of my time.
> >
> >
> > config.log:
> > ## Checking whether SageMath should install SPKG libffi... ##
> > ## ------------------------------------------------------- ##
> > configure:24887: checking for LIBFFI
> > configure:24894: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libffi"
> > configure:24897: $? = 0
> > configure:24911: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libffi"
> > configure:24914: $? = 0
> > configure:25100: result: yes
> > configure:25108: will use system package and not install SPKG libffi
> >
> > maxima log:
> > Condition of type: SIMPLE-ERROR
> > Error code 1 when executing
> > (EXT:RUN-PROGRAM "gcc" ("-o" "binary-ecl/maxima-package.fas"
> > "-L/usr/local/sage/sage-9.3/local/lib/" "/tmp/eclinit8GQbdq.o"
> > "binary-ecl/maxima-package.o"
> > "-Wl,--rpath,/usr/local/sage/sage-9.3/local/lib/" "-shared"
> > "-Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/local/sage/sage-9.3/local/lib"
> > "-L/usr/local/sage/sage-9.3/local/lib"
> > "-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/sage/sage-9.3/local/lib"
> > "-Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/local/sage/sage-9.3/local/lib"
> > "-L/usr/local/sage/sage-9.3/local/lib"
> > "-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/sage/sage-9.3/local/lib" "-lecl" "-lgmp" "-lgc"
> > ...)):
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lffi
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > Available restarts:
> >
> > 1. (CONTINUE) Continues anyway.
> > 2. (RESTART-TOPLEVEL) Go back to Top-Level REPL.
> >
> > Broken at DO-COMPILE-ECL.
> > File:
> > #P"/usr/local/sage/sage-9.3/local/var/tmp/sage/build/maxima-5.44.0/src/src/maxima.system"
> > (Position #1601)
> >
> >
> >
> > Do you perhaps need to sudo apt install libffi-dev?
>
>
> One way I can explain this is a broken system-wide install of libffi-dev
> I don't know how this can be achieved, other than having multiple
> system-wide copies of libffi,
> or stuff manually removed.
>
> The other possibility is that the linker is told not to look for
> system-wide libffi - can this be achieved with -L and -Wl,-rpath ?
>
> On the other hand, it's a bug in maxima, which does not try to check
> for presense of libffi, just assumes it's there.
oops, I meant to say, it's a bug in ECL, as this failing call to gcc
is emitted by ECL.
>
>
> > It is listed as a dependency here:
> > https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source.html
> >
> > (also see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837102 from 2012)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jan
> >
> > --
> > .~.
> > /V\ Jan Groenewald
> > /( )\ www.aims.ac.za
> > ^^-^^
> >
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