Sage 6.8 problem building on Linux Mint 17

[Adil Hasan]

Hello,

I downloaded the Sage source and tried to build it running the make command. The build failed when trying to install Cython with the error below.

Has anyone seen this before?

hope all is well,

adil

Compiling module Cython.Tempita._tempita ...

running install

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "setup.py", line 359, in <module>

    **setup_args

  File "/home/hasan/sage-6.8/local/lib/python/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup

    dist.run_commands()

  File "/home/hasan/sage-6.8/local/lib/python/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands

    self.run_command(cmd)

  File "/home/hasan/sage-6.8/local/lib/python/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command

    cmd_obj.run()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 73, in run

    self.do_egg_install()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 82, in do_egg_install

    cmd.ensure_finalized()  # finalize before bdist_egg munges install cmd

  File "/home/hasan/sage-6.8/local/lib/python/distutils/cmd.py", line 109, in ensure_finalized

    self.finalize_options()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 274, in finalize_options

    ('install_dir','install_dir')

  File "/home/hasan/sage-6.8/local/lib/python/distutils/cmd.py", line 298, in set_undefined_options

    src_cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()

  File "/home/hasan/sage-6.8/local/lib/python/distutils/cmd.py", line 109, in ensure_finalized

    self.finalize_options()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/install_lib.py", line 13, in finalize_options

    self.set_undefined_options('install',('install_layout','install_layout'))

  File "/home/hasan/sage-6.8/local/lib/python/distutils/cmd.py", line 302, in set_undefined_options

    getattr(src_cmd_obj, src_option))

  File "/home/hasan/sage-6.8/local/lib/python/distutils/cmd.py", line 105, in __getattr__

    raise AttributeError, attr

AttributeError: install_layout

Error installing Cython

[Volker Braun]

Which OS is that on?

[Dima Pasechnik]

On Monday, 3 August 2015 13:03:45 UTC+1, Volker Braun wrote:

Which OS is that on?

the subject line says "Linux Mint 17"

[Adil Hasan]

Hello Volker, 

sorry for some reason I didn't see the responses in my email client. Yes, it's Linux mint 17 (ubuntu based system) and I have python 2.7.6 installed system-wide. If you'd like me to test 6.9 I can try that.

Apologies for the delayed response.

adil

[Adil Hasan]

Hello,

I found out the cause of my problem. I needed to upgrade my version of setuptools (I upgrade to version 18.1 which is the latest thanks to the clue here

https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb/issues/60). I think hit another problem with Cython missing some pxd files. I think this was due to my installing the ubuntu version of

Cython. I removed this and then the build went through to completion.

Just thought I should post this in case someone else hits a similar problem (and of course to avoid people spending time on debugging it).

hth

adil

[Volker Braun]

This is now http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18994