I have an archlinux x86-64 desktop and I successfully installed (compiled) sage. I'd like to add some additional functionality however, but I've been stymied by a number of issues. First my top issue is to get pycuda working with sage, which apparently others have done. Unfortunately sage has an installation of setuptools which doesn't work with pycuda, and is supposed to be somewhat deprecated as of python 2.6.4.
-------------- I get an error of this type: Does your error message look like this? "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/setuptools-0.6c9- py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/build_ext.py", line 85, in get_ext_filename KeyError: '_something' You are using Python 2.6.3 with Setuptools. This will not work. Uninstall setuptools, install distribute. http://wiki.tiker.net/DistributeVsSetuptools#switching --------------- Two other python libraries I could not install are PyQt4 and pygtk. The latter runs up against an error: -------------- /usr/bin/ld: /opt/sage/sage/local/lib/../lib/ libpython2.6.a(abstract.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /opt/sage/sage/local/lib/../lib/libpython2.6.a: could not read symbols: Bad value -------------- This prevents some other libraries from installing. I'm not sure why the sage python distribution is so persnickety. What I'd like to know is how hard would it be to compile sage and configure it to use Arch Linux's system python, rather than the sandboxed python that comes with sage. This would make it much easier to reliably use other python packages, though of course it doesn't guarantee that sage would see a proven and tested environment, though isn't version control and package dependencies supposed to mitigate this issue? -- 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
