[sage-support] Re: Sage 8.3 build from source on Debian 7 fails

2018-09-08 Thread Stephen Weston
Are you building from a local filesystem or a distributed filesystem? It seems to build successfully for me when using a local hard drive, but fails when using a GPFS filesystem. On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 2:18:55 PM UTC-4, wout.d...@gmail.com wrote: > > This is what I try to do: > wget

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage 8.3 build from source on Debian 7 fails

2018-09-10 Thread Stephen Weston
ibution tarball...) > Would be be possible to install more up to date autotools? > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 12:14 AM Stephen Weston > > wrote: > > > > I have the same kind of problem on a RHEL 7.4 system. After > investigating the issue, it appears that some Mak

[sage-support] Re: Sage 8.3 build from source on Debian 7 fails

2018-09-07 Thread Stephen Weston
I have the same kind of problem on a RHEL 7.4 system. After investigating the issue, it appears that some Makefiles are trying to rebuild files (such as Makefile.in) because they are out-of-date with respect to their dependencies (such as Makefile.am) because, although they exist, their