On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:06 PM Sachi Hashimoto
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sachivh...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> It's Sage 8.2 and it's from a tarball. I'm building it from scratch--I just got a new computer. After extracting the tar file, and changing into the sage-8.2 directory in my applications folder, I ran 'make'. Before that, I tried to double check all the prerequisites and I installed some of the ones I thought I didn't have.
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> After I got the error message, I ran the commands that everyone suggested, above, unset PYTHONPATH and make, and then rm /Applications/sage-8.2/upstream/setuptools-38.2.4.zip and make. That's all.
To be clear, I don't think the suggestion to delete
upstream/setuptools-* made any sense in the first place. But you
definitely seem to have something weird going on either with paths or
environment variables. Perhaps you can post your full
logs/install.log file somewhere, as I suspect the problem began
earlier than your setuptools installation. It should also contain a
listing of the relevant environment variables.