Hi William! > > 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. Tank you very much, William! This both solved the mystery for me, and also showed me that I can't use this package anyway. I didn't expect that, since other packages I installed took care of the existing hardware too, but it is as it is in this case. BTW, does anything else remain on the harddisk after deleting the sage folder? > > Can somebody with a G4 laptop build a sage-3.4 binary and upload it to > sage.math, then post the link here? That would be really nice, but if it takes too much time I can also understand if nobody does it. Anyway, thanks a lot! Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
