If I understood Rob correctly, he started with:
"I'm running Sage through VMWare Player in Windows XP
on a small netbook."
So, I guess the question might be why the Sage in the VM image does not
have the patch program.
Ralf
On 07/17/2009 01:10 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> Martin Rubey wrote:
>> Rob <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> Hi again. Unfortunately it failed again, but this time with a
>>> different error message. Here's what it does now:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> checking for gtar... no
>>> checking for tar... tar
>>> checking for gpatch... no
>>> checking for patch... no
>>> configure: error: FriCAS needs a patch program
>>> ***********************************************************
>>> Failed to configure FriCAS.
>>> ***********************************************************
>>>
>>> real 0m...etc.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I guess I'm missing something else now. Is there anything else I can
>>> try?
>> You should forward these things to the fricas list...
>>
>> In any case, it seems that you are missing patch or gpatch. I don't
>> know why, but Waldek certainly does. Possibly also Ralf?
>>
>
> The canonical answer to this question is "install patch program".
> IIRC for Ubuntu patch is a separate package.
>
> Only if patch is installed it makes sense to ask why it is
> not detected...
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