On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried to install fricas (prompted by an earlier thread -- I wonder > which?) but this happened (with 3.0.2 on linux): > > axiom_build_bindir = > /home/jec/sage-3.0.1/spkg/build/fricas-1.0.2/build-dir/build/x86_64-suse-linux/bin > checking for gcl... no > configure: error: GCL and GCL sources missing, see README.wh > *********************************************************** > Failed to configure Axiom. > ***********************************************************
Wow, that stinks. The situation last time I tested fricas was that it didn't require gcl to build (only clisp, which we shipped), and I'm very unpleasantly surprised this is now broken. Maybe Bill Page or Waldek Hebisch could comment... In any case, we should open a ticket, I think. > > real 0m0.546s > user 0m0.280s > sys 0m0.268s > sage: An error occurred while installing fricas-1.0.2 > Please email sage-devel http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > explaining the problem and send the relevant part of > of /home/jec/sage-3.0.1/install.log. Describe your computer, > operating system, etc. > If you want to try to fix the problem, yourself *don't* just cd to > /home/jec/sage-3.0.1/spkg/build/fricas-1.0.2 and type 'make'. > Instead type "/home/jec/sage-3.0.1/sage -sh" > in order to set all environment variables correctly, then cd to > /home/jec/sage-3.0.1/spkg/build/fricas-1.0.2 > (When you are done debugging, you can type "exit" to leave the > subshell.) > > > Is there somewhere where package dependencies are listed? Are these > checked (I guess not)? > > John > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
