2009/6/13 paramaniac <[email protected]>:
>
>> I think it is about time to do a serious audit of the Sage
>> distribution and figure out precisely why it has got so large.    I'm
>> puzzled though by the "680MB compressed", since the binaries here are
>> much smaller than that:
>>
>> http://sagemath.org/bin/apple_osx/intel/index.html
>>
>> Did you use "sage -bdist 4.0.1-OSX10.4-PowerPC" to make the binary?
>> If not, then you've made one that would be too big.
>
> Well, I downloaded the source code
> http://www.sagemath.org/src/sage-4.0.1.tar
> and typed "make". Afterwards, I created the .dmg file with Disk
> Utility command File>New>Create Image from Folder. There's only one
> compression grade. XCode version is 2.5 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (my
> machine is too old for OS X 10.5).
> Hope this helps.

That's definitely the wrong thing to do.  You should make the dmg by typing

  ./sage -bdist 4.0.1-OSX10.4-PowerPC

and then wait 15 minutes and look in the SAGE_ROOT/dist directory.

William

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