[sage-support] Re: problem installing SAGE 2.8.10

2007-11-03 Thread Greg Marks
Dear Michael and William, Thank you for your help (and for the incredibly speedy response). Yes, I'm perfectly happy with the SAGE 2.8.10 binary, which I've installed, and which is working. Yes, as you inferred, I do have gmp-4.2.1 in my /usr/local directory; I guess this caused the build proble

[sage-support] Re: problem installing SAGE 2.8.10

2007-11-02 Thread didier deshommes
On 11/2/07, Paul Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I take the opportunity to ask why the unknown 'x' is special in Sage: Mostly convenience since most people use x for a polynomial or the name of a variable. In earlier versions x was defined to be the polynomial x, now it's a symbolic varia

[sage-support] Re: problem installing SAGE 2.8.10

2007-11-02 Thread Paul Zimmermann
> The culprit is NTL: > > powerpc-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.1: unrecognized option '-shared' > /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: > _main > ___gmpn_add_n > ___gmpn_addmul_1 > [...] > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[3]: *** [libntl.so] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [lib] Error 2 > ---

[sage-support] Re: problem installing SAGE 2.8.10

2007-11-01 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 2, 3:44 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/1/07, Greg Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Greg, > > Hello! I'm not sure if you remember me from grad school--if not, my > > apologies for the familiarity. > > I remember you from grad school. Nice to hear from yo

[sage-support] Re: problem installing SAGE 2.8.10

2007-11-01 Thread William Stein
On 11/1/07, Greg Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! I'm not sure if you remember me from grad school--if not, my > apologies for the familiarity. > I remember you from grad school. Nice to hear from you again. > I'm delighted by your development of SAGE; this is truly a wonderful > serv