On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 23, 2008, at 16:01 , David Joyner wrote: > >> >> The install failed right off the bad on a OS10.4intel macbook: >> >> new-host-3:/Volumes/G-DRIVE-MINI/sagestuff/sage-3.2.alpha0 wdj$ make >> cd spkg && ./install all 2>&1 | tee -a ../install.log > [snip] >> ********************************************************* >> >> Found either MacPorts or Fink in your path, which potentially wrecks >> the Sage build process. >> You should make sure MacPorts and Fink cannot be found. Either: >> (1) rename /opt/local and /sw, or >> (2) change PATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH >> (Once Sage is built, you can restore them.) >> >> ********************************************************* >> >> make[1]: *** [installed/prereq-0.3] Error 1 >> >> real 0m8.579s >> user 0m1.252s >> sys 0m2.695s >> new-host-3:/Volumes/G-DRIVE-MINI/sagestuff/sage-3.2.alpha0 wdj$ >> >> Should I really make these changes before compiling? This seems odd. > > Yes you should. Later on, when you run Sage, the environment will be > changed to avoid inadvertently picking system versions of components > that Sage provides. By building with Fink or MacPorts accessible, you > will subvert that effort, and (as has been reported frequently) pick > up system versions that you should be avoiding.
Okay, but this is strange. I changed the PATH to something stupid. Then the make of course failed. Then I changed it back to the original. Now make worked fine. Huh??? On top of that, I am getting odd behaviour from sage -testall (see trac #4320), so I am relatively confused. I think the complications go a bit over my limited brain capacity! > > Justin > > -- > Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large > Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds > -------- > Men are from Earth. > Women are from Earth. > Deal with it. > -------- > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
