On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:31 PM, dean moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sending this to the whole group -- no reason. > > Sure, will document it let you know when I have something "nice." The word > "spline" > seems to occur in two pages I find.
Thanks! > > In other news, I finally dual-booted my computer Microsoft-Linux & was > trying to install > sage from source. No m4. Running Ubuntu 7.10. I type which m4 in a > terminal & next > line is blank. > > While it's not a big deal to grab a package & install it, I want to make > sure I have the > right thing. Is this the m4 referred at < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_m4 >? What > I'm guessing; please correct me be I wrong. > > Might be another documentation thing. My first searches led me to a machine > gun, > probably not a component of sage. Yes, you need the m4 mentioned above. There may be other packages you need -- refer to the README.txt. Do [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install m4 to install m4 on ubuntu. Unfortunately, at present a machine gun can't be used in lieu m4 when building Sage. -- William > > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:13 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:57 AM, dean moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Thanks! That worked nicely. > > > > > > But should this type of thing be documented, as others may face this? > > > > > > Dean > > > > > > > Sure! Could you just take the current docs for spline?, modifying them > the > > way you wish they were regarding the above issues, and put the result > > as a response to this email? > > > > 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
