For the record, I am able to successfully (if slowly) build Sage on my aging laptop with 512MB of RAM. So it seems that the critical value is somewhere between 256 and 512.
On the other hand I'm not sure that I have actually done this since about 2.9 and it gets bigger (and better!) with each release! John 2008/4/17 terry-s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Thank you for trying to help, William. > > The file I used was marked 'intel-i686' for my pentium-3 laptop, > and 'amd' or 'athlon' (according to sage version) for my AMD > desktop. Those designations were the closest match and not > obviously wrong. On the other hand, there's nothing in the > filenames, or in any documentation that I found, that seems to > match the description "much older machine than yours". > > Certainly the error messages seem to indicate a lack of some > configuration file(s) somewhere: it looks as if the unpacked > binary, when it is run first time, is making some attempt to create > a new substitute configuration file somewhere, in which maybe the > pathnames and maybe more items are changed to reflect the new > surroundings. > > It might be helpful to spell out this process, whatever it really is, > in > the user description, and then the user could intervene if it goes > amiss, > which seems to have happened with my Mandriva setups. > > I did check my .bash_history file and it only records 'make' and not > 'make install'. I did, in that respect, exactly what the user > instructions > said. When I made my failed attempt to compile from source, a great > many of the ingredient packages were compiled, with appearances of > success, before the process eventually reached the 'linboxwrap 0.0.1' > cpp package on which it failed. It may be that the feature you > mention, of > not 'installing' until all is done, is actually happening on a package- > by- > package basis. > > Terry > > On Apr 16, 7:48 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:01 PM, terry-s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Apr 16, 6:27 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:21 AM, terry-s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > ok, I've tried out the instructions. > > > > > > > [1] On the desktop, the binary file downloaded and expanded ok, > but I > > > > > get (different from before) error messages when I run ./sage > > > > > [screenful reproduced below]. > > > > > > That just means the binary is for a much older machine than yours. > > > > You can either try a different linux binary, or wait for a Mandriva > binary. > > > > > --- Well if the binaries are for a restricted range of machines, then > > > it would be > > > helpful, if the webpages or documentation would actually say just what > > > machines > > > the binaries are for. > > > > It does -- the filename has the operating system and machine architecture > > listed in it. As an experiment I recommended trying a binary not for your > > machine on the off chance it might work. I guess I shouldn't have > suggested > > that. > > > > > > > > > [2] On the laptop, there is no longer enough room even to expand > the > > > > > binary file, because of the 400MB debris left by the failed > attempt to > > > > > compile from source. If I could only know what it has installed > on to > > > > > the disk, I would like to remove it. (The failed compile attempt > was > > > > > made in a branch directory off 'home'. The total extra disk > > > > > utilization after the compile attempt was about 800 MB more than at > > > > > the start. About 400MB of that was in the subdirectory where the > > > > > compile was done. I've now deleted that. But there remains an > extra > > > > > 400MB somewhere unidentified. Any ideas on where to look would be > > > > > appreciated.) > > > > > > Sage is 100% local. It *does not* install any files anywhere else > > > > on your hard drive unless you type "make install", and even then > > > > the install only happens at the very end. In other words, just delete > > > > the directory where you tried to do the build, and it will be as > > > > if you had never done anything. Nice, eh? > > > > > "As if I had never done anything". Unfortunately that is not true, on > > > the > > > evidence of the state of my machine. > > > > I say that "unless you type make install". Check back in your email, it > > looks like you did. > > > > Anyways, since I'm obviously causing more harm then good for this > > particular support request I'll stop helping on it. > > > > Do check back for Mandriva binaries. We will surely have them > > in the not distant future. > > > > william > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
