On Aug 7, 2007, at 1:31 PM, William Stein wrote: >> 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. > > Yes, that should be fine. It won't fry your OS :-) > > Give it a shot, post the link, and see if it works on the > machine of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I end up having problems because the random OS X powerpc > machines I freeload on are configuring fine for usage but not for > building binaries.
This is a G5 running OS 10.4.9. Would you expect the resulting binaries to run on (a) a G4 or G3 processor (which among other things are not 64-bit...), (b) 10.4.x for x < 9? (c) 10.3.x? david --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
