On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:31 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Erik Lane <erikl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Issues with the install: > > > > README.txt needs updating. At least for Ubuntu ranlib doesn't show up as > an > > option for apt-get, but it is part of the binutils package. Also needs to > be > > updated re: the new requirements for gfortran. It still lists the old > info. > > GCC needs to be all lowercase for apt-get to find it on Ubuntu. > > Thanks. Can you post a new README.txt? > > Post it where? Here to the list? Should I assume that what holds true for Ubuntu is more general, or just make notes in the text that let people know that on Ubuntu that's the way it is? (Because that's all I have available to me.) > > > > The sagenb.org still lists itself as being 4.3, but at least some of the > > options listed as new for 4.3.1 work on it, so I assume that was just > > overlooked? > > It's fully 4.3.1. However, I'm not going to restart it so that it > shows "4.3.1" until sometime late tonight, to minimize inconvenience > for users, since restarting causes downtime. > > That makes sense. I was assuming that it was a hand-coded thing. Nice that it's automatic! > Yes. You should try again with > > unset SAGE_CHECK > I tried again with a fresh terminal window and it built just fine. In fact it was working on that as I sent that last message, just in case that took care of it. > > Sage has never *ever* built with SAGE_CHECK set, as far as I know. > > So that option should at least be removed in the README.txt, shouldn't it? Or very strongly discouraged. It didn't specifically say so, but seemed to imply that it was a good idea. (At least that's what I assumed when I saw it. Tests to ensure proper operation are normally a *good* thing....) > See > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7090 > Exactly what I got! > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7091 > > etc. > > We've hand-inspected the R failures and they are all because of > missing optional R packages that we don't include with Sage. > > -- William > Thanks! Erik -- 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
