Hi Steve, thanks for reporting - I just pushed my latest changes which should fix the problem. Re-emerging sage-base should create the needed directories; sage-core contains your proposed patch.
Christopher On Sunday 18 April 2010 07:32:05 Steven Trogdon wrote: > Christopher, > > The follow probably only applies to amd64. Sage will not install with the > subject ebuilds. The > "sage -c" during postinstall fails because the files > > /opt/sage/local/lib/sage-flag.txt > /opt/sage/local/lib/sage-current-location.txt > > cannot be written since /opt/sage/local/lib doesn't exit. I suppose the > files are needed. One can create the symlink lib -> lib64 if lib is needed > or whatever. Even if this is fixed "sage -c" fails because the amd64-hack > patch does't take. The spkg-install is bypassed with the sage-core ebuild. > I tried a variety of things to get Sage to install and adding > > append-flags -fno-strict-aliasing > > to the sage-core ebuild works here. I'm not sure of the impact on ~x86 or > ~pcc. > > Steve
