Re: [sage-devel] Build failed sage-4.3.1

2010-01-22 Thread Erik Lane
> 'binutils' is not a program, but a collection of programs from GNU, which > happens to include ranlib, ar, ld and others. > > Yes, but I was suggesting the change because of issues I had trying to install ranlib. I attempted it and was told that apt-get couldn't find it. I then did some searching

Re: [sage-devel] Build failed sage-4.3.1

2010-01-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Erik Lane wrote: Post it where? Here to the list? Should I assume that what holds true for Ubuntu is more general, or just make notes in the text that let people know that on Ubuntu that's the way it is? (Because that's all I have available to me.) I looked into it, and looks

Re: [sage-devel] Build failed sage-4.3.1

2010-01-21 Thread Willem Jan Palenstijn
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:31:26PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > We've hand-inspected the R failures and they are all because of > missing optional R packages that we don't include with Sage. I also found out later that there's a new R spkg by kcrisman at #6532 (needs review) that should pass all

Re: [sage-devel] Build failed sage-4.3.1

2010-01-21 Thread Erik Lane
> > Post it where? Here to the list? Should I assume that what holds true for > Ubuntu is more general, or just make notes in the text that let people know > that on Ubuntu that's the way it is? (Because that's all I have available to > me.) > > I looked into it, and looks like it's very standard t

Re: [sage-devel] Build failed sage-4.3.1

2010-01-21 Thread Erik Lane
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi Erik, > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Erik Lane wrote: > > Issues with the install: > > > > README.txt needs updating. At least for Ubuntu ranlib doesn't show up as > an > > option for apt-get, but it is part of the binutils package.

Re: [sage-devel] Build failed sage-4.3.1

2010-01-21 Thread Erik Lane
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:31 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Erik Lane wrote: > > Issues with the install: > > > > README.txt needs updating. At least for Ubuntu ranlib doesn't show up as > an > > option for apt-get, but it is part of the binutils package. Also needs

Re: [sage-devel] Build failed sage-4.3.1

2010-01-21 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Erik, On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Erik Lane wrote: > Issues with the install: > > README.txt needs updating. At least for Ubuntu ranlib doesn't show up as an > option for apt-get, but it is part of the binutils package. Also needs to be > updated re: the new requirements for gfortran. It

Re: [sage-devel] Build failed sage-4.3.1

2010-01-21 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Erik Lane wrote: > Issues with the install: > > README.txt needs updating. At least for Ubuntu ranlib doesn't show up as an > option for apt-get, but it is part of the binutils package. Also needs to be > updated re: the new requirements for gfortran. It still list

[sage-devel] Build failed sage-4.3.1

2010-01-21 Thread Erik Lane
Issues with the install: README.txt needs updating. At least for Ubuntu ranlib doesn't show up as an option for apt-get, but it is part of the binutils package. Also needs to be updated re: the new requirements for gfortran. It still lists the old info. GCC needs to be all lowercase for apt-get to