I mentioned that I'd send mail here again once the segfault problems are
fixed.
I believe that both of the crash-on-start problems with Sage 3.0.5 in
Debian are fixed in version 3.0.5dfsg-2, which is available in Debian sid.
-Tim Abbott
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Tim Abbott wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As of today, Sage 3.0.5 is available in Debian sid, so you can now run
> "apt-get install sagemath" and get Sage installed on your Debian system[1].
>
> However, the sage package has bitrotted substantially during the 7 months it
> was hanging out in the NEW queue, so I'd not count on it to work. In fact,
> Ondrej Certik has already reported it segfaulting at startup on i386. Bugs
> are being tracked (as usual) at <http://bugs.debian.org/sagemath> and we're
> currently using [email protected] for related discussion. I plan
> send mail here again once I upload a version that is believed working on x86.
>
> I'm planning to begin work on upgrading to 3.3 this weekend, since I believe
> that will help with some of the problems.
>
> It looks like there are a couple of likely complications:
>
> (1) Sage 3.3 alphas seem to be using an svn revision of MPIR. Is it possible
> to use GMP instead? Or alternatively, is there a stable MPIR release yet?
>
> (2) Sage seems to contain an spkg for "pynac", which is apparently a
> python-integrated gynac, where Sage is the upstream source? Does it have
> anything to do with this pynac: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pynac/>?
>
> -Tim Abbott
>
> [1] Well, if your system is running one of the architectures on which Sage
> compiles. Apparently, Sage builds on s390 but not MIPS; who'd have known? The
> apparent problem with MIPS is the use of long double functions like sqrtl in
> the Sage library (in sage/combinat/partitions_c.cc, and maybe nowhere else).
> MIPS support is quite low on my priority list, but if you're interested, feel
> free to send me patches.
>
>
>
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