Failed compile on afs system -- ncurses

[noa...@umich.edu]

Hello.

I'm compiling from source to a directory in my allocation on the afs filesystem of the school. I don't have full privilege, of course, but I have access to all of the compilation tools in the install checklist, so I think this should be doable. It runs for a few hours, but halts while installing ncurses:

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"terminfo.tmp", line 306, terminal 'lpr': can't link l/lpr to p/printer

? tic could not build /afs/umich.edu/user/n/o/noajshu/Private/2012-2013_Research/SAGE/sage-6.1.1/local/share/terminfo

make[4]: *** [install.data] Error 1

make[4]: Leaving directory `/afs/umich.edu/user/n/o/noajshu/Private/2012-2013_Research/SAGE/sage-6.1.1/local/var/tmp/sage/build/ncurses-5.9.p2/src/narrow/misc'

make[3]: *** [install] Error 2

make[3]: Leaving directory `/afs/umich.edu/user/n/o/noajshu/Private/2012-2013_Research/SAGE/sage-6.1.1/local/var/tmp/sage/build/ncurses-5.9.p2/src/narrow'

Error installing ncurses (narrow).

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In the ncurses log file I find the same information. The logs are here:

umich.edu/~noajshu/documents/ncurses-5.9.p2.log

umich.edu/~noajshu/documents/install.log

Is this a problem with symlinks?

-This is all the system information I can glean from uname -a:

Linux goldenaxe.gpcc.itd.umich.edu 2.6.27.3 #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 16:10:00 EDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks a million,

Noah

[Jean-Pierre Flori]

The error is: "

"terminfo.tmp", line 306, terminal 'lpr': can't link l/lpr to p/printer"

So it seems to be something with symlinks.

[noa...@umich.edu]

Thanks. I fixed the problem by adding

    --enable-symlinks \

to both ./configure sections of the spkg-install file in the build directory, and ncurses is all set.

However, now there is a problem with the garbage collector in ecl-12.12.1.p4:

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configure: Configuring included Boehm GC library:

/afs/umich.edu/user/n/o/noajshu/Private/2012-2013_Research/SAGE/sage-6.1.1/local/var/tmp/sage/build/ecl-12.12.1.p4/src/src/configure: line 5949: /afs/umich.edu/user/n/o/noajshu/Private/2012-2013_Research/SAGE/sage-6.1.1/local/var/tmp/sage/build/ecl-12.12.1.p4/src/src/gc-unstable/configure: No such file or directory

configure: error: Unable to configure Boehm-Weiser GC

Error - Failed to configure ECL ... exiting

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Sage is right, in that I can go to the tmp folder and the file "gc-unstable" is absent. Any idea why this is?

On another note: given the difficulty of doing a full compile of all of Sage's components on nonstandard systems, is there some workaround that ignores errors in the make, or does a very minimal install? I only need the installation on this computer so that I can run a simple piece of code for a long time to verify a conjecture. Alternatively, is there a way to compile a .sage script to a complete .c or .py file that could then be compiled on a system lacking sage?

[Volker Braun]

Install to /tmp or /scratch (if you have one)

AFS doesn't support hard links (only if both files are in the same directory, which is entirely useless).