On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:05:37 -0800, Kate Minola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.)
Thanks! Does the following work on your system (see attached)? Also -- slightly off topic -- do you know how to check in autoconf that GCC >= 3.x is available? William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
prereq-0.2-install
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