The machine is a server, and I am now the one that takes care of it.
I kind of just got handed the job.  A few users wanted an updated
version of Sage for research purposes.  I can look into updating gcc.
So, if I update gcc, do you think there will be other problems?

Thanks



On Feb 5, 1:43 pm, mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni-
dortmund.de> wrote:
> On Feb 5, 8:30 am, mrotsliah <mrotsl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Here is the end of the output that make produced:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > make[3]: *** [periods_n.o] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/sage-3.2.3/spkg/build/
> > eclib-20080310.p7/src/g0n'
> > make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/sage-3.2.3/spkg/build/
> > eclib-20080310.p7/src'
> > Error building cremona
>
> > real    6m2.424s
> > user    5m43.250s
> > sys     0m18.600s
> > sage: An error occurred while installing eclib-20080310.p7
>
> See, Sage did not finish building, even by a long shot.
>
>
>
> > Please email sage-develhttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel
> > explaining the problem and send the relevant part of
> > of /usr/local/sage-3.2.3/install.log.  Describe your computer,
> > operating system, etc.
> > If you want to try to fix the problem, yourself *don't* just cd to
> > /usr/local/sage-3.2.3/spkg/build/eclib-20080310.p7 and type 'make'.
> > Instead type "/usr/local/sage-3.2.3/sage -sh"
> > in order to set all environment variables correctly, then cd to
> > /usr/local/sage-3.2.3/spkg/build/eclib-20080310.p7
> > (When you are done debugging, you can type "exit" to leave the
> > subshell.)
> > make[1]: *** [installed/eclib-20080310.p7] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/sage-3.2.3/spkg'
>
> > real    18m53.767s
> > user    16m59.400s
> > sys     1m43.340s
>
> > I see now the instructions at the end that tell me to
>
> > type "/usr/local/sage-3.2.3/sage -sh"
> > in order to set all environment variables correctly, then cd to
> > /usr/local/sage-3.2.3/spkg/build/eclib-20080310.p7
>
> > Will /usr/local/sage-3.2.3/sage -sh auto fix everything?
>
> Nope, your compiler is too old, i.e. pre gcc 3.4. We need at least gcc
> 3.4 since building Sage requires C99 support. There is a ticket in
> trac that would error out right at the start of the build, but no one
> has implemented that yet. Sorry, you cannot build Sage on that system
> without at least having a gcc 3.4 or higher and that is not especially
> hard if you have build gcc before, but usually a lot more work than
> the average Linux user does these days.
>
> Is there any reason you are sticking with that old SuSE 9.0 release?
>
> > thanks again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
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