When trying to build SAGE on an ia64-Linux machine, I ran into a problem because I did not have g++ correctly installed. To my surprise, prereq-0.1 did NOT catch that g++ was not working correctly.
What I saw was checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C++ compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C++ compiled p rograms. If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. See `config.log' for more details. grep: Makefile: No such file or directory Prerequisites are present. base/bzip2-1.0.3-install 2>&1 and the build process kept on running until it later failed. Note the statement "Prerequisites are present" even though there is a configure error saying the C++ is not working correctly and a grep statement that Makefile is missing. In looking at sage-1.4.1.2/spkg/base/prereq-0.1-install I see the lines grep "missing" Makefile if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then I am not sure what this is checking. If checking whether Makefile is missing, it is not doing its job. I suggest that these lines be changed to test -f Makefile if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then and an appropriate change be made to the echo statements in the if-then body. (In particular, take out the "grep missing Makefile" line.) Kate Minola University of Maryland, College Park --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
