So that seems to be the answer, OP uses the gold linker instead of the standard gnu ld. Which apparently can't link Sage. To fix this, uninstall binutils-gold. Gold is geared towards C++ so I'm not too surprised that it fails. Its also relatively new, especially for OP's linux version.
On Friday, February 7, 2014 5:24:58 PM UTC, Steven Trogdon wrote: > > It would seem that there's a problem with Binutils. I basically have the > same OS and gcc but with different hardware. However I have > > $ ld -v > GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.22 > > and the linking is good. I had some other hiccups, mainly with cvxopt, > when building 6.1.1 but eventually the build completed. I'm not sure why > there is a difference in Binutils? > > On Friday, February 7, 2014 10:13:34 AM UTC-6, sho...@ualberta.ca wrote: >> >> Well I did build it successfully once. It was on 12.04 Ubuntu that had >> been used a lot - many softwares built on it. I then upgraded to 13.10, had >> many problems, and then decided to reinstall (fresh) 12.04LTS over the top >> (even reformatted) of 13.10. So in essence, my Ubuntu is pretty new and may >> not have a lot of "stuff", even though it does have all the prerequisites. >> >> I've actually tried to build 5.13, 6.0, and 6.1.1 and none have worked. >> It always complains about "conway_polynomail".... I have the log files >> still too if that can help. >> >> I'll try the GIT build today and see what happens. >> >> I've also wondered about the PPA build of sagemath, though I don't like >> the idea of not having a self-contained directory/tree - maybe though it >> would install something in my /usr/bin or /usr/lib, etc. that I'm >> missing..... >> >> Thanks for the suggestion. >> >> Brett >> >> On Friday, February 7, 2014 7:40:08 AM UTC-7, Niles Johnson wrote: >>> >>> On Thursday, February 6, 2014 8:39:14 PM UTC-7, François wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I am stumped. I will have to think it over for a bit. Output of "ld >>>>> -v" please. >>>>> >>>> >>> While François is thinking, I'll make some other (more rudimentary) >>> suggestions. >>> >>> * Have you successfully built older versions of sage? What is the >>> latest one that builds? >>> >>> * Are there any other packages failing to build? (My guess is no.) >>> >>> * Could you try checking out and building from the git repository (this >>> shouldn't make a difference, but who knows!?) >>> [if you checkout the git repository, you can easily roll back to older >>> versions with, e.g., git checkout 6.0] >>> >>> * In particular, maybe try building the develop branch, just to see >>> whether you get the same or different problems >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
