On Jan 27, 3:14 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Arun <arungirid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > When I try to run Sage 3.2.3 on Pentium M 750 (Dothan, MMX, SSE, SSE2) > > with VMWare on Windows XP, I get the following error: > > > 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: > > > pni > > > I found this through Sagetrac:http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/4642 > > which says that pni (Prescott new instructions) cannot be ignored. > > Please let me know what I can do to disable Sage's reliance on pni, or > > if I need to compile Sage from source under VMWare. > > Right now the best thing you can do is to compile Sage from source under > VMware. > It should work since that's exactly how I build sage for the vmware > machine. If this proves impossible for you for some reason, let me > know. It should be easy though. > > We *are* working on making it so it is possible to build sage in such > a way that it > doesn't require pni, etc., but that will be some months in the future. > > -- William
William, Thanks! It will probably be a little difficult for me due to disk space constraints (enough for Sage under VMWare Player, but insufficient for Ubuntu + VMWare Server + Sage), but I'll see what I can do to solve the problem. Thanks, Arun --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
