It turns out that this is issue with 8.4.beta1 that Steven highlighted
above, although the fix that I needed has a few more steps. I'll post
details in sage-release under 8.4.beta1. In any case, I now have a working
version of 8.4.beta4.
Thanks Steven, John and Erik for your help!
Andrew
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Dear John and Erik,
Thanks for the hints. I have tried recompiling several times as suggested
but the build still fails, sometimes on pip-18.0 and sometimes on
python3-3.6.6.p0. Given the potential race condition in
https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18438 I'll try compiling with a single
core a
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 6:33 AM John H Palmieri wrote:
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> One thing to try, in case you haven't already: run make once, and if it fails
> with a warning like this, try running make again immediately (without doing
> "make distclean"). (Sage may be using Sage's python in the installation
> proc
