> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:59 PM, frosty <jfoster81...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have just discovered Sage & want to know if there are any folks here > > working on making a Debian version that would work without having to > > compile all the parts. i.e. use the needed files, apps & libraries > > that are already packaged in Debian. > > There are people in the Mandriva and Gentoo communities that have got > Sage (mostly) into their distros. Nobody in Debian is taking on the > challenge, as it turns out. All it would take would be somebody who > really wanted to do it (and had the drive). > > > Secondly I have downloaded the binary for Linux and have it installed > > & runnimng: I want to actually compile Sage for my server which is an > > AMD 6 core based server with 8Gb of ram running Debian stable. I > > tried , but it errored out, error 1 showing a segmentation fault. I am > > including the message snippet part of the install log to this mail. > > Maybe it will help. > > Either you have some really old version of GCC that is broken, your > compilers are misinstalled, or your hardware is somehow broken. > "internal compiler error" means the compiler crashed, which can be > caused by faulty hardware or a buggy compiler. > I think that when tabbott tried to get it into debian he tried to take the highway in some way. In debian you can add repo. Someone with debian knowledge could take the work we have done in Gentoo and Mandriva and create a sage repo with binaries for debian. All that is needed is someone with the drive, I, Christopher and Paulo (Mandriva) would certainly help someone taking that route.
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