installation problem

[bb]

As I mentioned in another posting I tried a simple install from source
(on slitaz linux).

1. I got he message that prereq-0.7 is missing.
prereq-0.7 and prereq-0.7-install.tar is present. On
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8052 I found the remark that
prereq-0.7-install.tar will be untared automatically - it is NOT!

2. I untared prereq-0.7-install.tar by hand and the next message is telling:
base/prereq-0.7-install: cd: line 178: can't cd to prereq-0.7
base/prereq-0.7-install: line 180: ./configure: not found
ERROR: You do not have all of the prerequisites needed

Next I checked line 179 and line 180:

tar mxvf "../base/$TARGET.tar"
cd "$TARGET"

./configure

I wonder about the tar options mxvf ? On minimal systems (like slitaz or
tinyCore linux) m is not provided! I would not say it is a bug, but it
is a nuisance!

3. Next step: I removed the m-option in line 179. And as a result I get
another error message:

...
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: in `/home/tux/sage-4.3.3/spkg/build/prereq-0.7':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
ERROR: You do not have all of the prerequisites needed
to build Sage from source. See the errors above.
make[1]: *** [installed/prereq-0.7] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tux/sage-4.3.3/spkg'

real 0m2.338s
user 0m0.682s
sys 0m0.457s
Error building Sage.
tux@slitaz:~/sage-4.3.3$

Does Sage really need all that awk versions?? (That are not the source
of the problem.)

Just as a guess there might be someting wrong with the gcc version?

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:23 AM, bb <bbl...@arcor.de> wrote:
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name...
> configure: error: in `/home/tux/sage-4.3.3/spkg/build/prereq-0.7':
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.

Your gcc compiler is somehow broken. What is the output of "gcc -v"
and "g++ -v" and what is at the end of config.log?

> Does Sage really need all that awk versions?? (That are not the source of
> the problem.)

The configure script found one version of awk and proceeded happily
with that and then got stuck on gcc.

Also even on "big" Linux distributions like Ubuntu you need to install
extra packages to compile Sage (like build-essential, m4, etc).

Cheers,

--
Carlo Hamalainen
http://carlo-hamalainen.net

[bb]

Carlo Hamalainen schrieb:

The text lines I sent were the last lines of config.log.

Regards BB

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:18 AM, bb <bbl...@arcor.de> wrote:
> The text lines I sent were the last lines of config.log.

And what's the output of

gcc -v

and

g++ -v

?

[bb]

Carlo Hamalainen schrieb:

> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:18 AM, bb <bbl...@arcor.de> wrote:
>
>> The text lines I sent were the last lines of config.log.
>>
>
> And what's the output of
>
> gcc -v
>
> and
>
> g++ -v
>
> ?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>

Beside the usual list of options I get gcc -version 4.2.3 for both.

On my 64-bit machines (where I installed sage successful) gcc version
4.3.2 and 4.4.1 is installed.

Does anybody know if sage 4.3.3 compiles with an obviously "old" gcc
version 4.2.3?

Regards

[Dr. David Kirkby]

bb wrote:

> Does anybody know if sage 4.3.3 compiles with an obviously "old" gcc
> version 4.2.3?
>
> Regards
>

It compiles with 4.0.1 on OS X, so whilst I can't say I know for sure it
compiles with 4.2.3 on Linux, I would expect it to.

Dave

[Dr. David Kirkby]

bb wrote:
> As I mentioned in another posting I tried a simple install from source
> (on slitaz linux).
>
> 1. I got he message that prereq-0.7 is missing.
> prereq-0.7 and prereq-0.7-install.tar is present. On
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8052 I found the remark that
> prereq-0.7-install.tar will be untared automatically - it is NOT!
>
> 2. I untared prereq-0.7-install.tar by hand and the next message is
> telling:
> base/prereq-0.7-install: cd: line 178: can't cd to prereq-0.7
> base/prereq-0.7-install: line 180: ./configure: not found
> ERROR: You do not have all of the prerequisites needed
>
> Next I checked line 179 and line 180:
>
> tar mxvf "../base/$TARGET.tar"
> cd "$TARGET"
>
> ./configure
>
> I wonder about the tar options mxvf ? On minimal systems (like slitaz or
> tinyCore linux) m is not provided! I would not say it is a bug, but it
> is a nuisance!

It can't really be called a bug, as there is no agreed standard for options to
'tar' - they are not defined by POSIX. But I would accept that 'm' is not a
commonly used option.

I've created a ticket to remove this option, which seems to be unnecessary.

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8566

That will be fixed in Sage 4.5, though I think you have other more serious
problems on your system.

Dave