I have a G5 powerpc. It's certainly not pristine, but if there's a way I can help without destroying my OS then I'm willing to give it a try.
You said below that /usr/local needs to be empty. So what if I temporarily rename /usr/local, build SAGE, and then rename it back. Will this fry my OS? Will this make the build work? There doesn't seem to be too much important stuff in /usr/local anyway, since most of my stuff is installed via fink or darwinports and so lives in /sw or /opt. david On Aug 7, 2007, at 1:01 PM, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Regarding the powerpc related mac problems, I can't just dump > those files in the local/lib/ directory of the SAGE install,since if > I do for other people they *will* mess up their SAGE installs (I was > told to include such files before by other people, did that for a > while, > and it caused way more problems than it solved). > The only reasonable thing I can think of for building SAGE on powerpc > is to get a minimal powerpc OS X machine (with /usr/local empty) > and build SAGE there, then distribute the resulting binaries. > > I do not have access to such a machine, and nobody has volunteered > one to me, or volunteered to build binaries, so until that happens or > I buy one myself (which I can't do for at least 3 weeks due to > traveling), > I won't be able to build OS X powerpc binaries that work on every > machine. > > In the meantime, your options include: > (a) Install fink and from fink install libfreetype and libintl. > or > (b) Build SAGE from source: > (1) install the latest version of Xcode (http:// > developer.apple.com/) > (2) download the tarball from > http://sagemath.org/dist/src/ > extract it and from Terminal in the directory where you > extracted > the source code type "make". --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
