On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:28 AM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > On Apr 24, 4:10 am, Lloyd Kilford <l.kilf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Lloyd, > >> I have downloaded the images of versions 3.4 and 3.4.1 to run under >> VMware, but I get the following error message when I try to run sage: >> >> WARNING: This Sage install was built on a machine that supports >> instructions that are not available on this computer ... The following >> processor flags were on the build machine but are not on this >> computer: >> >> pni >> >> Can someone look into this, please? > > The problem in general is that your computer does not have SSE3 > instructions that were used when building Sage leading to "illegal > instrucion - aborted" errors during the runtime. So we added a check > to warn users about it. So far, so good, but Sage 3.4.1 was supposed > to fix this by introducing an SSE2 only mode and William told me that > he build the Sage in the VMWare image in that mode. > > I would suspect this is a SNAFU since the env variable that William > thought would get used SAGE_SIMD_FLAG is not the correct one, i.e. it > is SAGE_SIMD_MODE. So I expect we will rebuild the VMWare image as > well as the farm binaries and SkyNet once again right now :( > > Ironically there is a ticket against 3.4.2 to document this in > README.txt - oh well ....
ARGH!!! I thought it was SAGE_SIMD_FLAG, because that's definitely what you wrote somewhere on a trac ticket. I guess you changed it. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
