Hi Rita Sage is fairly version strict on it's libraries, and many are patched.
Someone more familiar with this than me can answer in detail. Regards, Jan On 16 August 2012 11:20, Rita Morgan <rmorgan...@gmail.com> wrote: > My question was is it possible to use external library when compiling > sage. For example, openssl is located at /software for me and not in the > usual location, /usr. And also, are there any plans to include open-ssl, > tcl/tk into the source tree since they are core packages needed for Python. > > > > On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:39:05 AM UTC-4, Jan Groenewald wrote: > >> Hi Rita, >> >> >> On 14 August 2012 12:07, Rita Morgan <rmorg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the response. Is it possible to have sage make look at other >>> locations for these libraries? Instead of looking at /usr/... can they look >>> at /software/ ... Also, why wont they package these dependencies? >> >> >> Sage is packaged as a standalone source tree. >> >> It is not really packaged for any distribution, only distributed as >> source or binaries, >> so does not include dependencies via the native package managers. The >> documentation >> is constantly being improved, distribution-specific sections could >> perhaps be linked >> to from here http://www.sagemath.org/doc/**installation/binary.html#** >> linux-and-os-x<http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/binary.html#linux-and-os-x> >> and seach distritbutions' users could assist with a list of runtime >> dependencies. >> >> I believe the exceptions are the ubuntu PPA on launchpad which allows >> automatic updates and includes dependencies, and that gentoo and debian >> are in progress with full native packages. >> >> Regards, >> Jan >> >> -- >> .~. >> /V\ Jan Groenewald >> /( )\ www.aims.ac.za >> ^^-^^ >> >> -- > -- > 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 > > > > -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- -- 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
