On Sunday, May 4, 2014 4:57:48 PM UTC-7, Andrew wrote: > > I now have a working version sage! I should qualify this: I have a working > version of 6.2.rc0 but I am still unable to compile 6.1.1. I think that > this is because of #15937 <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15937>. This > patch is included in 6.2.rc0 and it fixes issues between singular and the > version of xcode that preceded the one that I am using. > > Please correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think that 6.1.1 compiles > with the latest version of xcode and the command line tools (5.1.1 build > 5B1008). > > As I'd previously compiled 6.1.1 I assumed that my problems were caused by > 6.2.rc0. Then I got stuck, however, because I couldn't recompile 6.1.1. In > the comments above there is some confusion about which version of singular > sage should have been using and that there may have been git issues. In > fact, git was happy and sage was always using the appropriate version of > singular for the version of sage being compiled. Once I realised this and > found #15937 I gave up trying to compile 6.1.1 and found that I was able to > compile 6.2.rc0. > > I have to say that I am a little confused about the build process. With > most systems, > make distclean > will attempt to return the code to its pristine download state. It seems > that sage is doing something different? If this is the case, then I think > it would be good to rename this make flag to something more accurate like > rebuild/reset/...? >
Can you clarify what you mean here? "make distclean" should indeed return the code to its pristine download state, except that it won't clean up files in the "upstream" directory. Are there other things it doesn't clean up which it should? John > > Anyway, sage is now working again so I am very happy. Thank you everyone > for your help, especially Volker. > > Andrew > -- 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/d/optout.
