On 8/12/07, William Stein wrote:
>
> On 8/12/07, Bill Page wrote:
> > I was trying to build Sage from the 'sage-2.7.3.tar' sources this
> > morning but I ran into a problem. Here is a excerpt from the build
> > log:
> ...
> Were you building like this:
>
>   nohup make > output&
>
> logout, etc.?

Yes. My sat uplink is sometimes unstable during thunderstorms and it
can cause the session to get dropped. Restarting in the middle of a
build sometimes fails. For that reason I often use nohup.

> On 64-bit Linux systems clisp fails to build unless
> you actually leave the console window open.  For some reason, redirecting
> the output to a file breaks the build.   Could you delete your massive
> log file, then restart the build by just typing "make" and leaving
> the console window open?

Yes, I can do this.

> Alternatively, help me fix this problem :-)
>

This sounds like a clisp build problem to me. Perhaps it should be
reported to the clisp developers?

> The error message above says:
>
> > *** - The value of *ERROR-OUTPUT* was not an appropriate stream: 
> > #<UNBOUND>. It
> > has been changed to #<IO SYNONYM-STREAM *TERMINAL-IO*>.
>
> Maybe this means that one has to do something else, e.g.,
>    nohup make > output 2>error &
>

That's a good idea if it works. I'll give it a try.

> ???  Any ideas are welcome.
>

I will let you know.

Thanks.

Bill Page.

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