On 25 Aug., 14:19, 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.) > > Right. > > I will check to see what is up with that. The same computer has built > Sage with no problems until this version, so I don't know exactly what > is going on.
Just try $ cd spkg/standard/ $ ./newest_version maxima # e.g. If that fails, play with your 'sed', e.g. try (there) $ ls -1rt maxima-*.spkg | tail -n 1 | sed -e 's/\.spkg//' -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
