Thanks. It's not my machine so installing gcl is not an easy option. John
2008/5/28 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On May 28, 9:12 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi John, > >> 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 > > It seems to expect gcl to be installed, so it is likely that once you > install a system wide gcl it would get beyond that point. In the past > there was trouble building FriCAS/Axiom/OpenAxiom with the clips Sage > provides since we do not build libsigsev [Maxima doesn't require it] > and we do wrap the binary clisp into a thin shell wrapper because > otherwise on relocation clisp does not find its default memory image. > Maxima is build with some switch telling it to use clisp as clisp.bin > for example. We will soon [a months or two] switch to using ecl > [Maxima in interpreted mode works already] and FriCAS's test suite on > the latest ecl is actually about 30% faster than clisp. And there are > already speed ups beyond that. > >> *********************************************************** >> Failed to configure Axiom. >> *********************************************************** > > <SNIP> > >> Is there somewhere where package dependencies are listed? Are these >> checked (I guess not)? > > For packages I build the dependencies are listed in the subpages > linked from > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/Sage_Spkg_Tracking > > Not all packages are up there [or even current], but I have been > updating the pages as I go along and usually write SPKG.txt for each > indivisual spkg I work on. Burcin Eroal did also create a such an > SPKG.txt for Fricas at > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/spkg/fricas > > but he left the dependencies blank. So updating that will certainly > help. As is we do not have an optional or experimental gcl.spkg. > >> John > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
