ANNOUNCEMENTSage is now operative on another platform.* After messing around with various versions of sage for a couple years, I have finally been able to get the sage 4.4 prompt appearing for the first time on my Alpha based Digital/Compaq/HP XP1000 workstation running Linux. (Linux 2.6.33.3. alpha GNU/Linux aka alphaev6-unknown-linux-gnu) The notebook also works. * Here is the asterisk: Not everything compiles. Doesn't pass all tests. I had to do a LOT of hand compiling to get to this point, and still not every package compiles. Luckily some packages that didn't compile have been dropped from sage over the years. Some packages I just let the version I already have in the filesystem, python for instance. ( Not-able-to-compile-packages so far include Altas and R ) Why bother with a dead platform? I have it. Source code of a high quality product should be platform independent ( ha ha) so it SHOULD "just work". Also, platform- independence means it will more likely work in the future on new platforms. (This is not my first post to this email list, just the first using this email address. Before I sent up a couple Solaris bugs, but I've lost interest in that platform.) iconv install.log says: iconv will not be installed, as we only need to build it on Solaris and Cygwin - see: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8567 alpha needs it. However, I just installed it the os version, not sage version. Other bugs/fixes will be posted in separate emails. carlhansen1...@gmail.com -- 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
