On Jan 15, 2008 3:00 PM, Georg Grafendorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > > > 1. Is this a clean, from-source build of sage-2.9.3? > > Yes, i tried it out on two different systems now, Athlon XP, and Core Duo, > both running on Debian Etch, and both show the same behaviour > > > > 2. What is the output of /usr/bin/env for you? Mine (Intel OS X > > 10.5.1) doesn't mention sage at all, although mysteriously things are > > working for me. > > the SAGE_ROOT directory is included in my path, i even defined a global > variable with this name, i.e. SAGE_ROOT. > > > > > #!/usr/bin/env sage -python > > > import sys > > > > For me, I get > > $ ./BMV.sage > > $ > > you response encouraged me to try out some more things, and if i change the > first line to > > #!/usr/bin/env sage-python > instead of > > #!/usr/bin/env sage -python > (note that there is no space anymore) things work as excepted (at least > import sys and print "Hello World"), seems like my /usr/bin/env does not > like the space between (#!/usr/bin/env "sage -python" does not work either) > > but however, using > > #!/path/to/sage_root/sage-python > import sys > > still does not work and shows the same strange "mouse behaviour" as > described in my original posting, on both systems!! > no idea why the second one does not work on my systems!! > > > > However, when I run the sage itself, it looks like it's pointing at > > some weird version: > > $ /usr/bin/env sage > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > | SAGE Version 2.9.2, Release Date: 2008-01-05 | > > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Loading SAGE library. Current Mercurial branch is: demo > > $/usr/bin/env sage > > brings me to the sage prompt as expected > > > Hopefully this helps, although I have a feeling this thread isn't > > over... > > Anyway, at least i found a partial solution to carry on with, but it seems > as there are still some things to clarify, especially the mouse thing > concerning the import sys > > Thank you very much, > Georg
I consider all this a bug, and it's definitely a problem on numerous _linux_ systems. This problem doesn't happen at all on OSX. I've made it http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1789 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---