building sage from source on OSX 10.11 El Capitan

[Karl Rubin]

I upgraded to El Capitan OSX 10.11 on my iMac before I knew that this would kill my sage installation.  I see that there was a ticket about this (#19370) that is now closed/fixed.  How can I get the corrected source code to build it myself?  I'm comfortable with the command line and can follow instructions, but I'm not familiar with git and haven't been able to figure out how to do it myself.  And I prefer not to disable SIP if possible.  Thanks for any help.

Karl Rubin

[John H Palmieri]

On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 12:57:08 PM UTC-7, Karl Rubin wrote:

I upgraded to El Capitan OSX 10.11 on my iMac before I knew that this would kill my sage installation.  I see that there was a ticket about this (#19370) that is now closed/fixed.  How can I get the corrected source code to build it myself?  I'm comfortable with the command line and can follow instructions, but I'm not familiar with git and haven't been able to figure out how to do it myself.  And I prefer not to disable SIP if possible.  Thanks for any help.

You should be able to download the latest beta version (which includes the changes from #19370) at

  http://www.sagemath.org/download-latest.html

You need to get the file "sage-6.10.beta1.tar.gz", unpack the tarball, and build it. Actually, once you build it, if you move the Sage installation, it will break (because of changes in OS X 10.11). So unpack the tarball, put the resulting "sage-6.10.beta1" directory somewhere you want to keep it for a while, and only then should you build it.

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John