On 25 Aug., 04:17, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Did something change in prereq in the last couple alphas? Through > 4.7.1 I really had no trouble on Cygwin other than known problems. > But now I get weird things like what is below > (seehttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kcrisman/cygwin-1.7.9-winxp-sage... > for all details). > > Usually typing "make" again keeps it going, but with this latest alpha > I can't even get to the first spkg, I guess. Note that suspicious > order of words appearing each time: > > installed/Error running sed to extract package name > > I also find "installed/Error dependency dropped." amusing. Maybe we > need an Error dependency :) > > Thanks for any help - my guess is that something weird is going on > with a line ending or the arguments to some command, but I don't > understand how makefiles or spkg/standard/deps *really* work (I mean, > I can follow the implications in deps, but don't really know what > "happens" so that it follows these implications, nor in what order), > so I could use the help tracking this down.
'make' is irrelevant here. Apparently your 'sed' -- used by the (poor) spkg/standard/newest_version script -- is broken, as the first error message suggests. (The variables in 'deps' are then messed up with error output instead of package names.) -leif -- 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
