On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:36 AM, kickniko <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Minh! > >> You might want to consider downloading the source distribution of Sage >> 3.4 and then build your own .dmg. Instructions to do so can be found >> at >> >> http://mvngu.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/clickable-mac-os-x-app-for-sage... >> >> However, please note that those instructions were written using Mac OS >> X 10.4.8 with Intel Core 2 Dual. > > > Thanks a lot for the info, Minh! It's really very nice of yours to try > to help. > > I visited the URL and read the contents. Well, what can I tell you... > I don't see any more why Mac software (or so they say) should lead me > to that typical overload of compiling, building packages and all > similar unnecessary things for the user. I did it once for my > postgresql but that was the first and the last time. When it comes to > software from other people I am the user, not the developer. > > I thought that perhaps that error message "illegal instruction sage- > ipython "$@" -i" from line 197 of the sage-sage file could be a hint > for some easy tweak, but it seems that it isn't.
"Illegal instruction" means that the binary was built on a G5 and you're trying to run it on a G4. Unfortunately, at present some important component of Sage is compiling in special G5 instructions. I think we don't know which component yet with certainty, though I suspect mpir-gmp. It's also possible that the version of GCC that was used to build the binary has changed and is now more aggressive about generating optimized code for a given processor. Can somebody with a G4 laptop build a sage-3.4 binary and upload it to sage.math, then post the link here? -- William > A bit disappointed, > since I was so happy that at last I could use good CAS-software as a > big helper for dealing with problems of my everyday work for living, > but this way it gets to a subject of study for itself and I already > have enough problems here. In other words I didn't get a fridge in > order to learn thermodynamics. ;-) So I assume that I'll have to wait > until some reasonably installable package comes out. This one is > definitely not the Apple way. > > Thanks again, > > Nick > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
