If you are going to add this, maybe you can also add dpkg-architecture on Ubuntu. This prerequisite (to figure out multiarch) one took me a while to figure out, and it wasn't installed on the Ubuntu box that I played with.
Just today I was also thinking about adding a script in front of the whole build process that will suggest a few required/suggested distribution packages to install before running the compilation and abort if they are not found. You could skip over that test by setting SAGE_PORT if you know what you are doing. Any thoughts on that? On Thursday, August 2, 2012 9:46:47 PM UTC-4, John H Palmieri wrote: > > Given the number of people who have problems installing Sage because their > system is missing openssl, should we check for that in the prereq script, > so that the error is caught as soon as possible, and so that we can write a > good error message? (Note that I'm not volunteering to do this, because I > don't really know how...) > > -- > John > > -- -- 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
