Hi everyone, being a new Sage user under Mac OS X, I spent a whole day trying to get the examples for using compiled code from http://www.math.washington.edu/~jkantor/Numerical_Sage/node10.html to work. Trying to make sense of the error messages and googling for fixes, I did not realise the most simple explanation - until I ran "which gcc" in the terminal and got no result. I simply didn't have gcc installed! Unless I'm blind, there is no hint to check if gcc is installed in an obvious place on website or in the documentation. Of course, the problem was fixed easily by installing XcodeTools.
I think it would be very helpful for new users to have a remark in the readme or on the download page, that sage does not include gcc, but requires it for certain features. Maybe this is so obvious, that nobody thought of it before. Otherwise, Sage seems to be a great piece of Software, keep on the great Work Felix --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
