On Thursday, August 2, 2012, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >
I'm +1 to this. > > 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 > > > > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- -- 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
