On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 12:21:36 AM UTC-5, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 10:30:15 PM UTC, vdelecroix wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> A friend of mine has a MAC OS X version 10.8.5 and wanted to use Sage. >> The binaries for this precise version were not available, but it appears >> that some other binaries went just fine (I think he used the 10.9.5 >> ones). He is able to launch Sage and do elementary computations. >> >> However, with this configuration it seems impossible to compile any >> package with pip... >> > > IMHO Sage's binaries are often somewhat broken, as soon as compilation > capabilities are concerned. > > >> Is there a workaround other than compiling from sources? >> > > it isn't even clear if Sage 7.5+ can be compiled from sources on OSX > 10.8.5, > as the toolchain might be too old to build Sage's gcc, or have too old > assembler to support > gcc's output... > > Computer archaeology is hard, in particular in Apple's land :-) > > True, though I would hope that in this case if they use their gcc to build a gcc which can build Sage's gcc, they should be okay. Or at least that was my experience with OS X 10.4 (!) a year or two ago, so hopefully 10.7 should be doable. I had 10.7 until just a year ago and it always upgraded fine.
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