---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cliff Sojourner <> Date: Dec 12, 2007 11:15 AM Subject: Re: SAGE trouble on RHL FC3 To: William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
thanks for your quick reply! I will rebuild from source, if you don't hear anything then I got it to work :) we're already talking about ways we can contribute to sage. > On Dec 12, 2007 10:44 AM, Cliff Sojourner <> wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > having trouble with google groups (it says I joined the sage-support group > > but won't let me post anything to the list) - sorry to bother you. > > > > I'm eager to try SAGE so I downloaded > > /sage-2.8.15-rhel-32bit-i686-Linux.tar.gz, > > unzipped, fixed up SAGE_HOME, and tried to run it. > > > > here's what I got: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sage]$ ./sage > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > | SAGE Version 2.8.15, Release Date: 2007-12-03 | > > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > /home/csojourner/sage/local/bin/sage-sage: line 149: 2631 Floating point > > exception"$SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/"sage-location > > /home/csojourner/sage/local/bin/sage-sage: line 210: 2632 Floating point > > exceptionsage-cleaner > > /home/csojourner/sage/local/bin/sage-sage: line 210: 2633 Floating point > > exceptionsage-ipython -c "$SAGE_STARTUP_COMMAND;" "$@" > > > > > > any ideas? bash resolves $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/"sage-location correctly > > so I don't see why it should print "Floating point exception". > > This is because the hardware I built the binary on is somehow incompatible > with your hardware. Would it be OK with you if you build from source? This > is *very* easy to do: > > 1. Grab the latest source tarball here: > http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/dist/src/ > 2. Type > tar xvf sage-2.8.15.tar > cd sage-2.8.15 > make > 3. Wait up to 2 hours. > > You just have to have gcc, g++, and make installed -- there aren't any other > dependencies. > > In the meantime go to http://sagenb.com, create an account and play around. > > > > > This is on Red Hat linux, fedora core 3: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sage]$ uname -a > > Linux csojourner-lab1.packeteer.com 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3smp #1 SMP Fri Oct 21 > > 04:03:26 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > > > > oh by the way, your SAGE tutorial is really well written! I am > > Thanks. > > > an experienced python programmer so it was a fast read for me, but > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Cool. Hopefully you'll consider contributing to Sage, which is mostly > written in Python. :-) > > > it will be a good reference book too - hallmark of well-written > > documentation. > > Thanks. > > William > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
