Problems installing TOPCOM-0.17.4.spkg in Sage 6.3 Operating System: OS X 10.6.8

[Nana]

Dear All,

I'll appreciate your help with the following problem, I am a complete inexpert.

I installed sage for the first time in my computer. My aim is to use the package TOPCOM to compute triangulations.

My machine is a MacBook Pro Intel Core i7. with operating system 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.

Xcode 3.2.6 is  installed. And the sage version is 6.3, Release Date: 2014-08-10.  

Searching in the internet I found that a way of installing topcom is via the command:

./sage -f /Applications/sage/upstream/TOPCOM-0.17.4.spkg (adress)

but the installation can not be completed.  I installed a new mpir 2.6.0p4 

as a previous output suggested but this didn't fixed the problem.

The log file is (also attached)

TOPCOM-0.17.4

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Extracting package /Applications/sage/upstream/TOPCOM-0.17.4.spkg

-rw-r--r--  1 nana  admin  901874 Aug 23 19:29 /Applications/sage/upstream/TOPCOM-0.17.4.spkg

Finished extraction

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Host system:

Darwin Quyllur.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:32:41 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

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C compiler: gcc

C compiler version:

Using built-in specs.

COLLECT_GCC=gcc

COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/Applications/sage/local/libexec/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/4.7.3/lto-wrapper

Target: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0

Configured with: ../src/configure --prefix=/Applications/sage/local --with-local-prefix=/Applications/sage/local --with-gmp=/Applications/sage/local --with-mpfr=/Applications/sage/local --with-mpc=/Applications/sage/local --with-system-zlib --disable-multilib --disable-nls  

Thread model: posix

gcc version 4.7.3 (GCC) 

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WARNING: spkg-install is not executable, making it executable

./spkg-install: line 11: cd: /Applications/sage/spkg/standard/: No such file or directory

./spkg-install: line 11: ./newest_version: No such file or directory

Failed to find mpir.  Please install the mpir spkg

real 0m0.004s

user 0m0.001s

sys 0m0.002s

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Error installing package TOPCOM-0.17.4

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Please email sage-devel (http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel)

explaining the problem and including the relevant part of the log file

  /Applications/sage/logs/pkgs/TOPCOM-0.17.4.log

Describe your computer, operating system, etc.

If you want to try to fix the problem yourself, *don't* just cd to

/Applications/sage/local/var/tmp/sage/build/TOPCOM-0.17.4 and type 'make' or whatever is appropriate.

Instead, the following commands setup all environment variables

correctly and load a subshell for you to debug the error:

  (cd '/Applications/sage/local/var/tmp/sage/build/TOPCOM-0.17.4' && '/Applications/sage/sage' --sh)

When you are done debugging, you can type "exit" to leave the subshell.

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Thanks in advance, and good weekend!

Nana

[Dima Pasechnik]

On 2014-08-24, Nana <nan...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear All,
>
>
> I'll appreciate your help with the following problem, I am a complete
> inexpert.
>
>
> I installed sage for the first time in my computer. My aim is to use the
> package TOPCOM to compute triangulations.
>
>
> My machine is a MacBook Pro Intel Core i7. with operating system 10.6.8
> Snow Leopard.
> Xcode 3.2.6 is installed. And the sage version is 6.3, Release Date:
> 2014-08-10.
>
>
> Searching in the internet I found that a way of installing topcom is via
> the command:
>
> ./sage -f /Applications/sage/upstream/TOPCOM-0.17.4.spkg (adress)

normally, one just does

./sage -i topcom

this will download topcom spkg and install it.

Can you try this?

[Volker Braun]

We transitioned the old topcom spkg to a new-style package. Dima's suggestion will probably fix the build issue by using a newer version of the build script.

[Nana]

Thanks a lot Dima,

Earlier today I checked more in the older discussions (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/S5zQ5O7HBc0), and I found a message from leif:

to delete the TOPCOM *spkg* in /Applications/sage/upstream/, and instead place 

http://www.sagemath.org/packages/upstream/topcom/topcom-0.17.4.tar.bz2 

and  afterwards retry 'sage -i topcom'

This solved the problem. So, your indication was in the right path.

Thanks a again!

Nana

[Nana]

Hi!

Yes, this was the way, but i first had to delete the spkg and put on the folder the http://www.sagemath.org/packages/upstream/topcom/topcom-0.17.4.tar.bz2 

as was suggested in a previous discussion https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/S5zQ5O7HBc0.

thanks a lot!

Nana

[Volker Braun]

"sage -i topcop" automatically downloads the tarball, no need to do it by hand.