I've been wrestling with this a few days and can't quite figure out whats wrong.
I'm trying to install Google Protocol Buffers in sage-3.4 which used to go without a hitch in previous versions. I've successfully installed qt-45, vtk, the enthought Mayavi2 suite etc., all of which are larger and somewhat more complex. With all these packsges, I first source sage-env which doesn't cause problems. Protobuf uses a configure script and installs without problems in general (I'm on Ubuntu 8.10). But, if I source $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/ sage-env, the configure fails, complaining about not being able to delete a directory. make subsequently fails as well. I've successfully installed protobuf by hand-jamming the environment variables and install prefix (i.e. not sourcing sage-env). So far so good so I have a workaround... But, I'm concerned that sage-env causes this to fail Instead of providing the output spew, if anyone is interested in trying just to see: Assuming you're working from $SAGE_ROOT download: http://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.0.3.tar.bz2 . ./local/bin/sage-env tar xf protobuf-2.0.3.tar.bz2 cd protobuf-2.0.3 ./configure --prefix=$SAGE_LOCAL make protobuf is pretty widely used so I'm fairly sure there isn't anything too strange going on there but can't say for certain. Unfortunately, this kind of configure makes it difficult to see what might be going wrong. -glenn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
