On 9/12/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 12, 8:18 pm, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear SAGE team, > > > > I had problems with installing SAGE from the sources. I tried to send you > > the message below, including the install.log. > > However, install.log comprises 8 MB, and your mail system refused to take > > more than 1 MB. > > > > So, here it is without the install.log. Perhaps you can request specific > > parts of the install.log, if necessary. > <SNIP> > > > > <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: > > /usr/local/sage-2.8.4.1/local/lib/libreadline.so.5: undefined symbol: PC > > Hello Simon, > > this indicates a problem with readline, but are there more symbols > missing? Can you please try the following: > > - do you have libncurses-devel installed? On some systems readline > requires ncurses and its development packages > - if you don't have that package installed please install it and > recompile from scratch in a different directory, just to be sure > - if that doesn't help please post the complete logfile somewhere on > the net (after compressing it) and post a link here so I (or others) > can take a closer look. > > The dependencies of readline have been discussed in #sage-devel > before, but there hasn't been any resolution yet. It seems to be > distribution dependent if they are needed or not. >
Actually I don't know any Linux distributions that require the libncurses-devel package in order to compile Sage. That package is needed for some optional packages, e.g., Macaulay2 and Lie. Simon -- very important: 1. Precisely what Linux distribution (with version) are you using? 2. What is your computer (processor, RAM, etc.) William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
