On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:29 PM, mirko <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Indeed, I was using gcc version 4.0.0 20041026 (Apple Computer, Inc.
> build 4061) since I overlooked the warning in
> http://www.sagemath.org/src/README.txt
>
> Perhaps it would make sense to give a warning when executing make?


Sure.  We would welcome a patch that makes this the case. Would you like to
contribute to Sage?


>
> I will upgrade to a new version of gcc (in the meantime, I am using
> the binary).
> Thanks,
> Mirko
>
>
>
> On Jul 29, 9:20 am, gsw <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 29 Jul., 16:06, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:02 AM, mirko<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > > Hi,
> >
> > > > I tried downloading the source for sage-4.1 and simply running a
> > > > 'make' from the directory. I was told it would just work. Well, it
> did
> > > > not. I got the following message.
> >
> > > > sage: An error occurred while installing ntl-5.4.2.p8
> > > > Please email sage-develhttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel
> > > > explaining the problem and send the relevant part of
> > > > of /Users/mirko/Desktop/sage-4.1/install.log.  Describe your
> computer,
> > > > operating system, etc.
> > > > If you want to try to fix the problem, yourself *don't* just cd to
> > > > /Users/mirko/Desktop/sage-4.1/spkg/build/ntl-5.4.2.p8 and type
> 'make'.
> > > > Instead type "/Users/mirko/Desktop/sage-4.1/sage -sh"
> > > > in order to set all environment variables correctly, then cd to
> > > > /Users/mirko/Desktop/sage-4.1/spkg/build/ntl-5.4.2.p8
> > > > (When you are done debugging, you can type "exit" to leave the
> > > > subshell.)
> > > > make[1]: *** [installed/ntl-5.4.2.p8] Error 1
> >
> > > > real    25m49.762s
> > > > user    11m30.182s
> > > > sys     1m9.862s
> > > > Error building Sage.
> >
> > > > My machine is an Apple PowerBook G4 1.5 with Mac OS X 10.4.11
> > > > The relevant(?) part of the install.log is probably this:
> >
> > > What version of GCC are you using?  That's included in the install.log.
> >
> > > William
> >
> > More precisely, what does "gcc -version" give you as output?
> > The important part might be the "build number" as e.g. in:
> >
> > ... 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370) ...
> >
> > which is from the output of the Xcode 2.5 gcc. The Xcode 2.4.1 gcc
> > should still be fine, but earlier versions have reportedly problems.
> > Especially the gcc 4.0.0 versions are known to "buggy as a swamp in
> > florida" :-)
> >
> > You can get Xcode 2.5 via the Apple Developer Connection, BTW.
> >
> > One last sentence: On my G4 550Mhz PowerBook Sage-4.1 did compile fine
> > (using Xcode 2.5, gcc 4.0.1 build 5370 as above).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Georg
> >
>


-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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