> On 16/02/2018, at 09:34, Harald Helfgott <harald.helfg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have just updated Ubuntu 17.04 to 17.10 (since version 17.04 reached its > end-of-life point). Sage was uninstalled in the process. The binary I > reinstalled from the standard repositories crashed, so the only option I had > left was to install the most recent stable version of Sage (8.1) from source. > > I get: (end of the log file) > > ************************************************************************ > Error installing package giac-1.2.3.47.p0 > ************************************************************************ > Please email sage-devel (http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel) > explaining the problem and including the log file > /home/ahelfgo/Downloads/sage-8.1/logs/pkgs/giac-1.2.3.47.p0.log > Describe your computer, operating system, etc. > If you want to try to fix the problem yourself, *don't* just cd to > /home/ahelfgo/Downloads/sage-8.1/local/var/tmp/sage/build/giac-1.2.3.47.p0 > 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 > '/home/ahelfgo/Downloads/sage-8.1/local/var/tmp/sage/build/giac-1.2.3.47.p0' > && '/home/ahelfgo/Downloads/sage-8.1/sage' --sh) > When you are done debugging, you can type "exit" to leave the subshell. > ************************************************************************ > > I am attaching the entire log file for giac. > > What is the issue here? What can be done? > > Best > Harald > harald.helfg...@gmail.com > PS. The computer is a Dell XPS Ultrabook with the following specifications: > > Memory: 7,7 GiB > Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz × 4 > Ubuntu 17.10 > Gnome 3.26.2 >
This may be interesting. Could you tell me what version of mpfr is installed on the system? It is needed by gcc. François -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.