Porblems with Sage in Debian Sid

[Luis Finotti]

I am running Debian Sid.  The installation in my office stopped working this in the last 5 days.  (I am not sure exactly when.)  Versions 10.5 and 10.6 both stopped working.  I assume some update broke them.

So, I decided to try to install 10.7 from source, but it fails.  (10.5 also did.)

Here are the logs: 

https://luisfinotti.org/misc/install.log

https://luisfinotti.org/misc/config.log

Oddly enough, my home installations, also with Debian Sid, are still working, but I did not try to install/compile a new version yet.

Thanks in advance!

[Luis Finotti]

FWIW, at my home computer (also running Debian Sid, where Sage still works) I cannot compile 10.7 either.

It seems to be a problem with maxima:

[...]

spkg-install] /usr/bin/bash /home/finotti/src/sage-10.7/local/var/tmp/sage/build/maxima-5.47.0/src/install-sh -d /home/finotti/src/
sage-10.7/local/var/tmp/sage/build/maxima-5.47.0/inst
[spkg-install]
[spkg-install] Now installing the Maxima library as '/home/finotti/src/sage-10.7/local/lib/ecl/maxima.fas'...
[spkg-install] cp: cannot stat 'src/binary-ecl/maxima.fas': No such file or directory
[spkg-install] ********************************************************************************
[spkg-install] Failed to install 'src/binary-ecl/maxima.fas' as
[spkg-install] '/home/finotti/src/sage-10.7/local/lib/ecl/maxima.fas'.
[spkg-install] ********************************************************************************
************************************************************************
Error installing package maxima-5.47.0
************************************************************************

maxima is already installed, though:

maxima:
 Installed: 5.47.0-8
 Candidate: 5.47.0-8
 Version table:
*** 5.47.0-8 500
       500 http://debian-archive.trafficmanager.net/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

So is maxima-sage, but with a different version:

maxima-sage:
 Installed: 5.45.1-2+b2
 Candidate: 5.45.1-2+b2
 Version table:
*** 5.45.1-2+b2 500
       500 http://debian-archive.trafficmanager.net/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Maxime Bombar]

On 9/10/25 10:53 AM, Luis Finotti wrote:
> I am running Debian Sid.  The installation in my office stopped working this in the last 5 days.  (I am not sure exactly when.)  Versions 10.5 and 10.6 both stopped working.  I assume some update broke them.
>
> So, I decided to try to install 10.7 from source, but it fails.  (10.5 also did.)

Hi Luis,

the ecl (Embeddable Common-Lisp) version shipped with Debian is considered fine by Sage but is apparently not really compatible.

you can try to use "./configure --with-system-ecl=no"

It did the trick for me (Debian Sid as well).

To be honest, I didn't (yet) look more precisely why this is the case, but there already are open issues on Github regarding this issue.

Cheers,

--
Maxime

[Luis Finotti]

That worked!   Thanks for the help!