#12898: Update top-level README.txt
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: mvngu
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: documentation | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: William Stein, Karl-Dieter
Crisman, David Kirkby
Authors: Jeroen Demeyer | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by jdemeyer):
I made some further changes:
{{{
#!patch
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -69,12 +69,12 @@
1. Make sure you have the dependencies and 3 GB of free disk space.
- Linux: GCC, make, m4, perl, ranlib, and tar.
+ Linux: gcc, make, m4, perl, ranlib, and tar.
(install these using your package manager)
On recent Debian or Ubuntu systems (in particular Ubuntu 12.04
"Precise"), you need the dpkg-dev package.
- OS X: Xcode. Make sure you have installed the most recent version
+ OS X: Xcode. Make sure you have installed the most recent version
of Xcode. For pre-Lion versions of OS X, you can download Xcode
from http://developer.apple.com/downloads/. For OS X Lion, you can
install it using the App Store. With Xcode 4.3 or later, you need
@@ -112,12 +112,12 @@
On Linux, if you get this error message:
- " restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied "
+ Error: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
the problem is probably related to SELinux. See the following URL for
further information:
- http://www.ittvis.com/services/techtip.asp?ttid=3092
+
http://www.exelisvis.com/Support/HelpArticleDetail/ArticleId/3092.aspx
IMPLEMENTATION
@@ -184,17 +184,15 @@
export SAGE_CHECK="yes"
before starting the Sage build. This will run each test suite and
- will raise an error if any failures occur. Warning: on many
- platforms, this will cause failures in the installation of the
- Python spkg, so Python's test suite has been disabled by default.
- To renable it, set the environment variable SAGE_CHECK_PACKAGES to
- 'python'.
-
+ will raise an error if any failures occur. Python's test suite has
+ been disabled by default, because it causes failures on most
+ systems. To renable the Python testsuite, set the environment
+ variable SAGE_CHECK_PACKAGES to "python".
+
To start the build, type:
make
-
4. Wait about 1 hour to 14 days, depending on your computer (it took
about 2 weeks to build Sage on the T-Mobile G1 Android cell phone).
@@ -265,7 +263,7 @@
Sage includes a GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) package. In order to
build Sage, you need a C compiler which can build GCC and its
-prerequisites. GCC version 4.0.1 or later should probably work. On
+prerequisites. gcc version 4.0.1 or later should probably work. On
Solaris or OpenSolaris, building with the Sun compiler should also work.
The GCC package in Sage is not always installed. It is determined
}}}
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