Dear Waldek, Thanks for your consideration, I don't know which cases happened for me, but I tried again with the latest SBCL (2:1.0.55.0-1) and every thing works properly, so, it seems that the problem was about using an old version of sbcl! -- Hassan
On Feb 15, 10:36 pm, Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hassan Noori wrote: > > > Dear FriCAS Dev. team, > > > I'm running Puppy Linux racy 5.2.2 on my old Dell laptop. > > I try to build FriCAS on my system using the following instructions: > > > $ svn cohttps://fricas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fricas/trunkfricas > > (to fetch FriCAS files) > > $ ./configure > > (puppy is a poor -but very fast and useful- Linux version and i did a > > bunch of works to work this command) > > $ make > > > but before issuing 'make install' I got the following error messages: > > > "decFatal is an internal function that declares that the preceding > > test did not fail with a fatal error." > > --------(decXfFatal ((Void)))--------- > > --->-->UnittestCount((decXfFatal ((Void)))): Improper first word in > > comments: like > > "like decFatal,{} but for expected failures." > > --------(addWarning ((Void) (OutputForm)))--------- > > > >> System error: > > couldn't rename > > /root/fricas/src/algebra/TESTCNT.erlib/ > > to > > /root/fricas/src/algebra/TESTCNT.NRLIB: > > Invalid cross-device link > > <snip> > > Now, would you please tell me what is wrong and what should I do to > > correct it ?! > > AFAICS the message says that that renaming 'TESTCNT.erlib' to > 'TESTCNT.NRLIB' (which FriCAS is doing during compilation) > failed because they are on different partitions of your disc (or > on differents discs). However, this make no sense because > they are in the same directory. So something _very_ > strange is happening on your system. The simplest reason > is hardware malfunction for example due to bad memory or > overheating. Another possibility is use of unstable kernel > or libraries. Sometimes ones gets really strange error > messages when disc is full. > > What to do? If that is hardware malfunction then simply trying > again starting form configure step may work. Since that error > happened close to end of build, just waiting few minutes to let > the machine cool down and running 'make' again may work. > If trying again gives you the same error, than the problem > is probably software problem. Since the report is about > failing system call you can use strace command to see > exactly which system call failed and why. > > -- > Waldek Hebisch > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en.
