On Nov 30, 12:11 am, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 6:41 AM, joel wrote:
>
>
>
> > I mostly operate from the command line, so all the installation was
> > done from a macosx bash shell. tar is GNU tar version 1.14.
>
> > I downloaded sage-2.1.13-osx10.4-i386-Darwin.tar.gz from sagemath.org/
> > SAGEbin/apple_osx/intel
>
> > md5 checksum is OK
>
> > tar -zxf sage-2.1.13-osx10.4-i386-Darwin.tar.gz
>
> > fails with the same error...
>
> > tar: sage-2.8.13-i386-Darwin/local/LIB: Cannot create symlink
> > to `lib': File exists
>
> The tarball seems to be the culprit. I can't see how this will work
> (from "tar tvzf"):
>
> lrwxrwxrwx was/daemon 0 2007-11-21 16:30 sage-2.8.13-i386-
> Darwin/local/LIB -> lib
So can we nuke that symbolic link somehow?
> How was this built? Is someone using case-sensitivity on Mac OS X?
> Tsk tsk tsk...
:) - William rolled the tarball. I believe he build that binary on
fermat which is different from the box he used to roll tarballs on. We
don't have admin control on fermat - at least I don't - and it seems
unlikely that we can fix the filesystem to be case-insensitive again.
Cheers,
Michael
>
> Justin
>
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