On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:33:57 -0800, Burkhard Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Dr Stein, > > I failed to compile > > sage-1.4.1.2 > > under > > debian 3.1 with > gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) > > Remark: The SAGE Installation Guide on > http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/doc/html/inst/node3.html > suggests to install the debian package gcc-4.0-base and mentions "SAGE > is currently being developed using GCC Version 4.0.3, and is likely to > compile fine with GCC Version 3.2.x and newer (it is tested somewhat > sporadically with old compilers)." I have the older debian package > gcc-3.3-base installed. The error message in the build log is: ------------------ rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc makeinfo: unrecognized option `--enable-encoding' Try `makeinfo --help' for more information. make[3]: *** [mpfr.info] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/scratch/burki/compute/sage-1.4.1.2/spkg/build/mpfr-20061015' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/scratch/burki/compute/sage-1.4.1.2/spkg/build/mpfr-20061015' An error occured while building mpfr. ------------------ This means that MPFR requires a newer version of the makeinfo package, evidently. Perhaps you can upgrade this package? It's probably part of texinfo on your system, but I'm not sure. I've never had this error report before, so presumably your makeinfo command is pretty old. E.g., on my system I have: sha:~ was$ makeinfo --version makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8 Alternatively, I could make a modified mpfr package that doesn't set that --enable-encoding option. 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
