William is right, GCL was not required to install fricas. The original version I uploaded 10 months ago built fricas from pre-generated lisp source using clisp. The install took about 10 minutes to complete.
After downloading and untaring the file 'fricas-1.0.2.spkg' from: http://www.sagemath.org/packages/optional the file SPKG.txt shows that the version apparently came from Burcin Erocal on April 1, 2008: ... == Changelog == === fricas-1.0.2 (Burcin Erocal) === * update to FriCAS-1.0.2 release === fricas-0.3.1 (Bill Page) === * FriCAS-0.3.1 release Certainly it is the not the spkg that I created. This new version seems to require GCL and builds from source. This takes much! longer (~2 hours?). The version I uploaded last is here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/page/packages But I must admit that I have not tried it with more recent releases of Sage. Regards, Bill Page. On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:22 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
