Re: [sage-devel] Failure to patch gf2x-1.2 during build

2017-08-13 Thread François Bissey
Not sure what you done but it is obviously wrong. I think you unpacked the tarball in the same folder holding the install of sage 8.0. The problem with that approach is that files form 8.0 that have been removed from 8.1.betaX are still there. Like the patch that is failing to apply because it was

[sage-devel] Failure to patch gf2x-1.2 during build

2017-08-13 Thread Richard_L
Downloaded sage-8.1-beta-1, dropped into a clean copy of sage-8.0, and tried to make. Received message Makefile:1709: recipe for target '/home/rllozes/sage-8.1-beta-1/local/var/lib/sage/installed/gf2x-1.2' failed Log file attached. My system: openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel: 4.4.79-18.23-default

[sage-devel] Re: SIGSEGV in Maxima

2017-08-13 Thread rjf
On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 12:56:44 PM UTC-7, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > The difficulty is general, and bound to a very simple fact : when z is > complex (iL e. not known to be real), z^(1/3) denotes *some* quantity whose > cube is z, with no way to specify which. This ambiguity is

[sage-devel] Re: SIGSEGV in Maxima

2017-08-13 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
The difficulty is general, and bound to a very simple fact : when z is complex (iL e. not known to be real), z^(1/3) denotes *some* quantity whose cube is z, with no way to specify which. This ambiguity is lifted when z is known real, where one can specify that, by *convention*, z^(1/3) (or