On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:10 PM, dean moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I've been tempted to do something with a machine gun ...
>
> Grabbed m4-1.4.10 & unpacked it. Still get the same error, "SAGE BUILD
> ERROR:
> Command 'm4' not found" when cd-ing into sage's directory & typing make, as
> described
> in the installation guide.
>
> Seems to unpack m4 "right there," and not in another directory. Thinking of
> questions of
> finding it, tried unpacking in sage's directory. Ditto. Something with my
> path? Won't let
> me put it in root directory.
>
> Also tried sudo apt-get install m4. "Couldn't find package m4."
Did you put a period at the end of the command line?
Did you setup apt ever? You may have to edit
/etc/apt/sources.list
> Shouldn't this stuff come with ubuntu 7.10?
No, it is a compiler tool, and the Ubuntu CD is a
fairly minimal Linux install --it's just what you need
to get work done, not to build new software. You'll
need these packages:
g++, make, m4, ranlib
William
> Dean
>
> ---
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:05 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
>
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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