For the record, we do have a macOS buildbot that compiles every version we release (successfully except for giac, see related thread) at http://build.sagemath.org/#/builders/16
On Friday, February 21, 2025 at 3:38:14 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > <David Roe suggested that I post this here, as well as having done so on > zulipchat> > > Sage newbie. here, but long term Mac, etc., user and developer. Did > serious early work with algebraic manipulation system, Macsyma, including > doing internal mods in Lisp for 2D display of math expressions (pre-Latex). > Especially interested in the manifolds package for tensor calculus. > > My primary Sage installation is on an old MacBook Pro (2014-vintage, 11,3 > model) but running current macOS 15..3.1, patched with OCLP 2.2.0, built > from downloaded binaries. Since I expect to want to inspect and possibly > modify Sage internals, I tried building from source on this machine. Very > frustrating. Despite Dima's excellent repeated help, wasn't able to > successfully complete the build. Encountered a circular set of errors, > dealing with Python and pip versions, certificates, etc., Put the effort on > the back burner pending a better understanding of the issues. > > However, using this MacBook Pro with the Parallels Desktop system and a > Ubuntu 22.4 VM, I did complete a from-source build. And installed Ubuntu > 24.1 LTS directly on another MacBook Pro (9,3) and a Sage from-source build > there. So now I'm set to explore Sage for my purposes. > > But I still want to be able to do a clean build from source on current > macOS versions. Are there developers in this community with similar > interests? I would be interested in collaborating with you on making the > build process on macOS more robust. Feel free to respond to this post or > directly to me to see if there's a practical path forward. > > Mike > Silicon Valley > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/45221ff6-0cc2-46d2-a59f-1095d1da8bc5n%40googlegroups.com.
