> > so I was thinking about moving from Mathematica to Sage so I downloaded > the binary version for Linux 32-bits. Afaik I should just be able to run > sage with ./sage after extracting it but it doesn't work I get the > following message: > > ImportError: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' > not found (required by > /home/everton/sage-6.4.1-i686-Linux/local/lib/libstdc++.so.6) > > I have everything upgraded from the stable release, should I install > glibc_2.18 from the experimental branch? That would be kinda bad. > > So I tried just building from the source but I get a very weird error: > > checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... unsupported > checking for sqrt in -lm... no > > I tried doing the -lm thing outside on a test.c file and it worked so I > wonder what's wrong. Again getting nowhere I thought I should do a > ./configure first and see what happens, and I get another weird message > about gcc not supporting C99. > > This is a fresh installation from the latest debian release on a 32bit > laptop using gnome, as if that mattered. I have dpkg-dev installed as the > README.txt tells me to. I searched but I couldn't find the problem. Gcc is > version 4.7.2-5. > > Can you check whether the binary you downloaded does indeed match up exactly with your distro? Linux distros are notoriously finicky with respect to this stuff. Sorry :(
You also could probably build from source in just a couple hours... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
