On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > > Just a datapoint that might provide useful feedback for those who are > trying to make binary installs a smooth experience: > > I tried to install 4.1.2 on a Fedora 10 (i686) laptop. I tried both > the Fedora 9 and the Fedora 11 image. With either I got errors: > > ImportError: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not > found (required by <lib>.so) > > doing a "sage -f ..." for the package that provides <lib>.so solved > that problem, but then the next C++ library would play up. > I ended up getting stranded on: > > local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/combinat/partitions.so > > for which I was not readily able to determine which spkg to install. > > It may just be that F9/F10/F11 is a particularly active time of libstdc > ++ development. However, it gave me the impression that binary > distributions of sage are very fragile. It's good that there is always > the source fall-back option, but the prospect of having my laptop > churn for 2 hours to produce an upgrade actually put me off upgrading > for now. > > If this is a more common problem, how difficult is it to have a list > of c++ spkgs so that libstd++ problems can be solved by recompiling > those? Or are there so many that you might as well do a source > install?
Would you be willing to test taking a fresh install of the fedora 11 binary and dropping libstdc++ from Fedora 11 (etc.) into your local/bin/? For a very long time, with Sage we *distributed* a bunch of libstdc++ files with the binary. Maybe a combination of that with some instructions like you mention bight be the best option. Linux is a such an "exciting challenge" when it comes to making binaries. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
