I did "git checkout master" and then "make build". It has just finished building (so the better part of a day!) and left me on sage 8.2
I assume that it would have been quicker to have used "git checkout 8.4.beta4" (with the period, thanks Travis) On Sunday, 23 September 2018 14:05:58 UTC+1, Volker Braun wrote: > > Try "git checkout master" instead > > On Sunday, September 23, 2018 at 2:53:08 PM UTC+2, Bruce Westbury wrote: >> >> I tried and got >> >> bruce@bruce-Kudu:~/sage$ git checkout 8.4beta4 >> error: pathspec '8.4beta4' did not match any file(s) known to git. >> >> On Sunday, 23 September 2018 13:41:50 UTC+1, Volker Braun wrote: >>> >>> This is 26298 >>> >>> You need to go <= 8.4.beta4 for the initial bootstrap (which you only >>> need to do once), ie: >>> >>> git checkout 8.4.beta4 >>> make build >>> git checkout develop # or whichever branch you want to work on >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, September 23, 2018 at 1:53:52 PM UTC+2, Bruce Westbury wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I am currently unable to build my sage development system. >>>> Here are the messages I get from make build. >>>> I think the key line is: >>>> >>>> /usr/bin/env: ‘sage-system-python’: No such file or directory >>>> >>>> How should I fix this? >>>> >>>> bruce@bruce-Kudu:~/sage$ make build >>>> make build/make/Makefile --stop >>>> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/bruce/sage' >>>> ./bootstrap -d >>>> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/bruce/sage' >>>> rm -rf config configure build/make/Makefile-auto.in >>>> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/bruce/sage' >>>> ./bootstrap: line 30: aclocal: command not found >>>> Bootstrap failed, downloading required files instead. >>>> /usr/bin/env: ‘sage-system-python’: No such file or directory >>>> Error: downloading configure-282.tar.gz failed >>>> Makefile:194: recipe for target 'configure' failed >>>> make[1]: *** [configure] Error 1 >>>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/bruce/sage' >>>> Makefile:31: recipe for target 'base-toolchain' failed >>>> make: *** [base-toolchain] Error 2 >>>> >>>> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.