Hi Jeroen, On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > For those running Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot): > > Please test sage-4.8.alpha6: > http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/release/sage-4.8.alpha6/sage-4.8.alpha6.tar > > In some cases, R is known to fail to build because of a readline issue. > If you encounter this issue, please do the following (from ticket #11970): > $ ./sage -i > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/palmieri/SPKG/readline-6.2.p3.spkg > > Then simply continue with > $ make > > And report whether the build now works.
I followed the steps above and got a successive build. Loading the newly compiled Sage gives: [mvngu@melb sage-4.8.alpha6]$ ./sage ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Sage Version 4.8.alpha6, Release Date: 2012-01-01 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************************************** * * * Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable. * * * ********************************************************************** WARNING: Readline services not available on this platform. WARNING: The auto-indent feature requires the readline library sage: -- Regards, Minh Van Nguyen -- 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
