sage-8.2 on MacOS 10.13.5

[Thomas Kahle]

Hi,

I'm trying to get sage-8.2 to run on MacOS 10.13.5 in three ways:

1) Download sage-8.2-OSX_10.13.4-x86_64.tar.bz2 and unpack.

2) Download sage-8.2-OSX_10.13.4-x86_64.dmg and unpack

3) hombrew cask install sage

All three of them result in a non-working installation that starts up like this:

sage
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded during compilation
************************************************************************
It seems that you are attempting to run Sage from an unpacked source
tarball, but you have not compiled it yet (or maybe the build has not
finished). You should run `make` in the Sage root directory first.
If you did not intend to build Sage from source, you should download
a binary tarball instead. Read README.txt for more information.
************************************************************************

What could be wrong?

Thanks,

Thomas

[Dima Pasechnik]

8.2 was released before the latest OSX updates, thus all the bets are off regarding its usability. However, few things that can break your installation: spaces in the path of the directory you unpack into; weird PATH containing things (homebrew?) which shadow /usr/bin, /bin, etc.; Python environments such as anaconda in your PATH; LD_LIBRARY_PATH and its friends set to something "interesting"...

Perhaps the best would be to build the latest beta from source.

[Dima Pasechnik]

Also, see https://ask.sagemath.org/question/35132/how-do-i-solve-this-installation-problem/

(it says that Anaconda might be to blame)

[Thomas Kahle]

OK. I don't have anaconda. I don't have spaces in my installation
directory.
I do have python-3 in my path and I have 'python' default to python-3 by
adjusting my path, but this is the case for all my macs and on others
sage works.

Am 15.06.18 um 10:53 schrieb Dima Pasechnik:

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[Dima Pasechnik]

On Friday, June 15, 2018 at 9:56:16 AM UTC+1, Thomas Kahle wrote:

OK.  I don't have anaconda.  I don't have spaces in my installation
directory.
I do have python-3 in my path and I have 'python' default to python-3 by
adjusting my path, but this is the case for all my macs and on others
sage works.

another suspect is homebrew

Let's look at what you get from the tarball; suppose you are in the directory you untar Sage to, and then run 

 ./sage 

there.

What is the value of PATH?

As far as I know it should work with python 3, although it perhaps was not tested on OSX...

https://github.com/sagemath/binary-pkg/issues/7

 

 

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[Thomas Kahle]

I think python-3 is fine. As I said, I have another mac with (to my knowledge) identical setup on which sage-8.0 works just fine. I have also tried sage-8.0 on this machine here, but it was the same as in the code below:

tar -xf sage-8.2-OSX_10.11.6-x86_64.tar.bz2

➜  ~ cd SageMath
pwd
echo $PATH
echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
➜  SageMath git:(master) ✗ pwd
/Users/tom/SageMath
➜  SageMath git:(master) ✗ echo $PATH
/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin:/Applications/Macaulay2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/Library/Frameworks/Maple.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/Applications/MATLAB_R2014b.app/bin:/Applications/OpenSCAD.app/Contents/MacOS:/Applications/barvinok:/Users/tom/bin:/Users/tom/temp/prefix/bin
➜  SageMath git:(master) ✗ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/Applications/Macaulay2/lib
➜  SageMath git:(master) ✗ ./sage

RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded during compilation
************************************************************************
It seems that you are attempting to run Sage from an unpacked source
tarball, but you have not compiled it yet (or maybe the build has not
finished). You should run `make` in the Sage root directory first.
If you did not intend to build Sage from source, you should download
a binary tarball instead. Read README.txt for more information.

************************************************************************

[Thomas Kahle]

OK, I just noticed that I downloaded the 10.11.6 version, but it makes no difference, the error is independent of this.

[Dima Pasechnik]

On Friday, June 15, 2018 at 10:29:50 AM UTC+1, Thomas Kahle wrote:

I think python-3 is fine. As I said, I have another mac with (to my knowledge) identical setup on which sage-8.0 works just fine.

Could it be that you installed it there before changing the environment?

 

I have also tried sage-8.0 on this machine here, but it was the same as in the code below:

tar -xf sage-8.2-OSX_10.11.6-x86_64.tar.bz2

➜  ~ cd SageMath
pwd
echo $PATH
echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
➜  SageMath git:(master) ✗ pwd
/Users/tom/SageMath
➜  SageMath git:(master) ✗ echo $PATH
/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin:/Applications/Macaulay2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/Library/Frameworks/Maple.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/Applications/MATLAB_R2014b.app/bin:/Applications/OpenSCAD.app/Contents/MacOS:/Applications/barvinok:/Users/tom/bin:/Users/tom/temp/prefix/bin

Could you remove the following chunk (everything before /usr/bin:) from PATH:

/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin:/Applications/Macaulay2/bin:/usr/local/bin:

 

➜  SageMath git:(master) ✗ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

and unset  LD_LIBRARY_PATH

and try again?

Other possible SNAFUs come from hardware - what is the CPU of this Mac?

---------------------

Older that 8.2 binary versions of Sage are known to be (sometimes?) broken on OSX 10.13...

[Thomas Kahle]

Am 15.06.18 um 11:40 schrieb Dima Pasechnik:

>
>
> On Friday, June 15, 2018 at 10:29:50 AM UTC+1, Thomas Kahle wrote:
>
> I think python-3 is fine. As I said, I have another mac with (to my
> knowledge) identical setup on which sage-8.0 works just fine.
>
>
> Could it be that you installed it there before changing the environment?

Oh, yes. I should have checked that first. The
sage-first-run-path-fixing thing seems to be disturbed by the other
python. So the following works:

unset PATH
./sage (for the first time)
PATH back to normal
./sage

This works for me, I have a working sage-8.2. Thanks a lot!