On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:32 PM, A Rojas <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > >> If you plan on adopting sage-mathematics, you should know that it is >> currently unbuildable on archlinux, and some other newer distros due >> to how it is built. >> It is currently out of date, and you wont be able to update it without >> fixing this. > > I could build 4.8 succesfully (on x86_64) by commenting out the line "touch > spkg/installed/ppl-0.11.2" in the PKGBUILD. > I really hope someone can keep maintaining this in [community], it is a > pain to build (took more than 3 hours and almost all free disk space here) > and the binaries from www.sagemath.org are incompatible with Arch (the > Fedora one gives a missing _md5 module, and the Ubuntu one simply > segfaults). > >
The i686 build fails even with that option commented out. I think building on x86_64 still works. There is an online version of sage at http://www.sagenb.org/ Sorry, but I stand by my decision and will not be maintaining sage any longer.
