On 27 Apr., 23:14, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 04/27/12 04:12 PM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > > On 2012-04-27 16:43, David Kirkby wrote: > >> it fails very early on, as the version of GNU tar on there is unable > >> to extract the tar files produced by the Sage community. > > Did you manage to actually extract the Sage source tarball? > > It seems my memory had failed me - it was not the tar extraction what failed. > > Given I have only an old tools on this (gcc 3.4.6, make 3.80, tar 1.14), can > you > give me the link to a complete tarball with gcc in it, and I'll try to build.
The GCC 4.6.3 spkg is included as a standard spkg since 5.0.beta13, so you can just grab beta14: http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/release/sage-5.0.beta14/sage-5.0.beta14.tar -leif P.S.: Do you happen to have some *64-bit* PowerPC running AIX? -- 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