On Nov 2, 3:44 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/1/07, Greg Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
Hello Greg,
> > Hello! I'm not sure if you remember me from grad school--if not, my
> > apologies for the familiarity.
>
> I remember you from grad school. Nice to hear from you again.
>
> > I'm delighted by your development of SAGE; this is truly a wonderful
> > service to the mathematical community. My department has made
> > extensive
> > use of Maple in undergraduate courses, and many students are rightly
> > upset that they can't use those worksheets from their home computers
> > without buying Maple. When I've learned SAGE better I hope to migrate
> > many (or at least some) of these Maple materials to SAGE.
>
> Excellent. Sage is still far from perfect, unfortunately, but
> there are a lot of us working extremely hard to make it a truly
> viable alternative to Maple (not an easy task).
>
>
>
> > I'm sorry to bother you about this, but I'm having a problem
> > installing
> > version 2.8.10 of SAGE on my laptop (Mac OS X 10.4.10 with a PowerPC
> > G4
> > CPU). When I tried to upgrade from a previous (working) version of
> > SAGE, I got a strange traceback, so I removed the old directory and
> > installed SAGE 2.8.10 from source. The installation appeared
> > successful
> > (I've copied the install.log file to
>
> > http://euler.slu.edu/Dept/Faculty/marks/install.log
>
The culprit is NTL:
powerpc-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.1: unrecognized option '-shared'
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_main
___gmpn_add_n
___gmpn_addmul_1
___gmpn_divrem_1
___gmpn_gcd
___gmpn_gcdext
___gmpn_lshift
___gmpn_mod_1
___gmpn_mul
___gmpn_mul_1
___gmpn_rshift
___gmpn_sqrtrem
___gmpn_sub_n
___gmpn_tdiv_qr
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libntl.so] Error 1
make[2]: *** [lib] Error 2
----------------------------------------
Error building libntl.so
----------------------------------------
I have no clue yet why this should fail? Do you have a gmp either in /
usr/lib, /var/lib or /usr/local/lib?
> > in case it's informative); however, SAGE won't run (I've copied the
> > details of the traceback to
>
> > http://euler.slu.edu/Dept/Faculty/marks/sage_error_message.txt
>
> > in case that is informative). Have I done something stupid, and is it
> > corrigible?
>
> Since it sounds like you're perfectly happy to install a binary
> if one is available, and debugging a build problem on a ppc osx
> box that has been around a while can be somewhat time consuming
> (wrong Xcode version, weird libraries in /usr/local/lib/, weird
> interaction with fink or DarwinPorts, etc.), I've posted another
> 2.8.10 binary for ppc osx here.
>
> http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/apple_osx/powerpc/
>
> -- William
Cheers,
Michael
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