On Nov 27, 2008, at 11:40 PM, mabshoff wrote: > > On Nov 27, 11:30 pm, Jeffrey Straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi Jeffrey, > >> I've just downloaded and launched Sage on an Ubuntu 8.10 box. I >> unzipped the file and ran ./sage and got this: >> >> WARNING! This Sage install was built on a machine that supports >> instructions that are not available on this computer. Sage will >> likely fail with ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION errors! The following >> processor >> flags were on the build machine but are not on this computer: >> >> nx up > > You have hit a bug introduce by accident via #3761. > >> I downloaded this image of Sage: >> >> sage-3.2-ubuntu32bit-intel-i686-Linux.tar.gz >> >> Is there anything I can do? > > > Edit the file $SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/sage-flags.txt and remove the "nx" > and "up" flag. > > The flags file is meant to prevent binaries build with SSE2 and SSE3 > to run on machines that do not have those instructions (older 32 bit > x86 CPUs for example), Unfortunately the detection is a little > overzealous, i.e. "nx" indicates "no execute" capabilies, not sure > what "up" is about. > > We are tracking the problem at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ > ticket/4642 > and will have it fixed hopefully soon. Thanks for reporting the issue.
Ah, I didn't know this was an erroneous report. Please ignore my email (unless the list of flags is much greater, in which case there really would be cause for concern). - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
