[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4 build problem on Mac OS X

2009-05-02 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
mabshoff wrote: >> So one option would be to backport the patch to the Python version you >> ship and always invoke setup.py such that it ignores the >> .pydistutils.cfg. Of course, a simple test script that looks for the >> file and warns the user (like the macports warning/error) would also wor

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4 build problem on Mac OS X

2009-05-02 Thread mabshoff
On May 2, 1:25 am, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > mabshoff wrote: > >> I think this should be documented somewhere so others don't fall into > >> the same trap.  Thanks. Hi, > > Cool. Thanks for telling us - I have made this #5961. > > Glad to be of some assistance.  BTW, the .pydistutils.cfg w

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4 build problem on Mac OS X

2009-05-02 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
mabshoff wrote: >> I think this should be documented somewhere so others don't fall into >> the same trap. Thanks. > > Cool. Thanks for telling us - I have made this #5961. Glad to be of some assistance. BTW, the .pydistutils.cfg will affect any new spkg installs also since distutils will alw

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4 build problem on Mac OS X

2009-05-01 Thread mabshoff
On May 1, 7:32 pm, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > Dear Sage developers, Hi Prabhu, > I tried to build Sage-3.4 on my intel macbook (Mac OS X 10.4.11). I > have Xcode 2.5 installed and gcc-4.0.1. I downloaded the sage-3.4.tar, > untarred it and ran make. I have macports installed so changed the