[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-18 Thread Simon King
Hi Jeroen, On 18 Jan., 17:07, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-01-17 19:38, Simon King wrote:> Is there any place that automatically > provides the latest stable resp. > > the latest unstable official release? > > Latest stable:http://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html > Latest unstable: no (b

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-01-17 19:38, Simon King wrote: > Is there any place that automatically provides the latest stable resp. > the latest unstable official release? Latest stable: http://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html Latest unstable: no (but maybe there should be) > Can I expect that I will later be ab

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-18 Thread Justin C. Walker
Thanks for that. One lives and one learns, despite efforts to the contrary... On Jan 18, 2011, at 05:08 , Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-01-17 19:54, Justin C. Walker wrote: >> On Jan 17, 2011, at 08:52 , Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >>> Even if you would have such an alias, shell scripts normally don

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-18 Thread mhampton
On Jan 17, 12:38 pm, Simon King wrote: > Is there any place that automatically provides the latest stable resp. > the latest unstable official release? > > Can I expect that I will later be able to upgrade from the current > alpha1 to the official sage-4.6.2? > > Best regards, > Simon My under

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-01-17 19:54, Justin C. Walker wrote: > On Jan 17, 2011, at 08:52 , Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> Even if you would have such an alias, shell scripts normally don't use >> aliases. > > Can you clarify this? Normally, in a shell script, using 'ln' will invoke > whatever version of 'ln' is found

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-17 Thread RegB
"My BAD", as the colloquial saying goes. For others who lose the web site docs when upgrading; Type './sage -docbuild -D' to see the list of documents. Then; sage -docbuild tutorial html -S -a,-E and sage -docbuild website html -S -a,-E to get the tutorial back up. Same for whatever else you not

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-17 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Jan 17, 2011, at 08:52 , Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-01-16 23:05, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote: >> Do you maybe have 'ln' aliased to 'ln -s'? > > Even if you would have such an alias, shell scripts normally don't use > aliases. Can you clarify this? Normally, in a shell script, using 'ln

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-17 Thread Simon King
On 17 Jan., 17:52, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-01-16 23:05, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote: > > > Do you maybe have 'ln' aliased to 'ln -s'? > > Even if you would have such an alias, shell scripts normally don't use > aliases. But actually that was the problem. Doing "ln A B" in a script or typi

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-17 Thread Simon King
On 17 Jan., 17:48, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-01-16 08:22, Simon King wrote: > > > Hi! > > > I tried to build sage-4.6.2.alpha1, but without success. The > > install.log is > > athttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/SimonKing/logs/install.log > > Note that sage-4.6.2.alpha1 has absolutely NO

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-17 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-01-16 23:05, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote: > Do you maybe have 'ln' aliased to 'ln -s'? Even if you would have such an alias, shell scripts normally don't use aliases. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-17 Thread RegB
4.6.1 built on a virtual machine here as an upgrade, the 4.6.0 base was built on the same virtual machine. Linux UBUNTU 10.10 within Oracle VirtualBox 4.0 Unfortunately the docs don't seem to have connected properly, e.g. I can bring up the doc browser from the help link, but just about every lin

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-17 Thread Willem Jan Palenstijn
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:48:22PM -0800, Simon King wrote: > As I said, I am not sure whether the link is hard or soft. Is the type > of the link apparent in the output of the "ls -l" command that I > posted above? Yes, if there's a '-> somewhere' at the end, that indicates a symlink. (I typed s

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Simon King
Hi Willem Jan, On 17 Jan., 00:48, Simon King wrote: > Hi Willem Jan, > > On 16 Jan., 23:05, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote: > > The syntax for making hardlinks in subdirs is different than that for > > making symlinks in subdirs. Do you maybe have 'ln' aliased to 'ln -s'? That > > would break it. (

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Simon King
Hi Willem Jan, On 16 Jan., 23:05, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote: > > * When "make" fails, it is in SAGE_ROOT/spkg/build/gsl-1.14/src > > > * It complains the .libs/libgsl.lax/lt1-init.o does not exist. > > > * spkg/build/gsl-1.14/src *does* exist, namely it is a link to .libs/ > > libgsl.lax/libgsl

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Willem Jan Palenstijn
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 01:33:43PM -0800, Simon King wrote: > Hi! > > My frustration grows: The same problem occurs even with sage-4.6 > sources. Since previously a sage upgrade failed, the computer in my > office is now sageless. > > To summarize it: > > * When "make" fails, it is in SAGE_ROOT/

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Simon King
Hi! My frustration grows: The same problem occurs even with sage-4.6 sources. Since previously a sage upgrade failed, the computer in my office is now sageless. To summarize it: * When "make" fails, it is in SAGE_ROOT/spkg/build/gsl-1.14/src * It complains the .libs/libgsl.lax/lt1-init.o does n

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Simon King
Hi Martin, On 16 Jan., 16:18, Martin Albrecht wrote: > What happens if you type 'make' in > > /local/king/SAGE/sage-4.6.1/spkg/build/gsl-1.14/src king@mpc622:/mnt/local/king/SAGE/sage-4.6.1/spkg/build/gsl-1.14$ make make: *** Keine Targets angegeben und keine »make«-Steuerdatei gefunden. Schl

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Simon King
I see: lt1-init.o is just a pointer to .libs/libgsl.lax/libgslcheb.a/ init.o Here are all init.o that I found: ./spkg/build/gsl-1.14/src/block/init.o ./spkg/build/gsl-1.14/src/block/.libs/init.o ./spkg/build/gsl-1.14/src/permutation/init.o ./spkg/build/gsl-1.14/src/permutation/.libs/init.o ./spk

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Simon King
One more puzzle: $ ls -l /mnt/local/king/SAGE/sage-4.6.1/spkg/build/gsl-1.14/src/.libs/ libgsl.lax/lt1-init.o lrwxrwxrwx 1 king malg 36 16. Jan 16:17 /mnt/local/king/SAGE/ sage-4.6.1/spkg/build/gsl-1.14/src/.libs/libgsl.lax/lt1-init.o - > .libs/libgsl.lax/libgslcheb.a/init.o $ less /mnt/local/kin

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Sunday 16 January 2011, Simon King wrote: > Hi Martin! > > On 16 Jan., 15:48, Martin Albrecht > > wrote: > > Summary: building gsl fails because ar (which packages .o files together > > to produce static libraries) cannot find lt1-init.o in the build > > directory. Does this file exist in you

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Simon King
PS: On 16 Jan., 16:09, Simon King wrote: > .. > It is at > ./local/king/SAGE/sage-4.6.1/spkg/build/gsl-1.14/src/.libs/libgsl.lax/ > lt1-init.o And I should add: I issued the "make" command when I was in ./local/ king/SAGE/sage-4.6.1/ I went a few directories up before searching lt1-init.o Best

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Simon King
Hi Martin! On 16 Jan., 15:48, Martin Albrecht wrote: > Summary: building gsl fails because ar (which packages .o files together to > produce static libraries) cannot find lt1-init.o in the build directory. Does > this file exist in your build directory somewhere? > > ar: .libs/libgsl.lax/lt1-init

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Sunday 16 January 2011, Simon King wrote: > It doesn't even work to build sage-4.6.1 from source! > > What is going wrong? Do you have any hint for me by reading the > install.log that I posted? What can I ask the administrator to > install? Unfortunately, I am not root on that computer. Summa

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Simon King
It doesn't even work to build sage-4.6.1 from source! What is going wrong? Do you have any hint for me by reading the install.log that I posted? What can I ask the administrator to install? Unfortunately, I am not root on that computer. Best regards, Simon -- To post to this group, send an emai

[sage-devel] Re: Error building sage-4.6.2.alpha1

2011-01-16 Thread Simon King
It doesn't work with sage-4.6.2.alpha0 either: gsl fails to build. The other install.log is at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/SimonKing/logs/install.alpha0.log Best regards, Simon -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, sen