I am running 64-bit Scientific Linux 4.8. I downloaded/un-tar'd sage-4.2.1.tar, cd'd to sage-4.2.1 and ran 'make'.
Relevant output appended. -Richard Vaughn ================================================================ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking C++ compiler g++ -O2 -m64 -march=nocona -mtune=nocona... no, std iostream checking C++ compiler g++ -g -O2... no, std iostream configure: error: C++ compiler not available, see config.log for details Failed to configure. real 0m4.167s user 0m1.497s sys 0m1.324s sage: An error occurred while installing mpir-1.2.p9 Please email sage-devel http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel explaining the problem and send the relevant part of of /usr/share/sage-4.2.1/install.log. Describe your computer, operating system, etc. If you want to try to fix the problem yourself, *don't* just cd to /usr/share/sage-4.2.1/spkg/build/mpir-1.2.p9 and type 'make'. Instead type "/usr/share/sage-4.2.1/sage -sh" in order to set all environment variables correctly, then cd to /usr/share/sage-4.2.1/spkg/build/mpir-1.2.p9 (When you are done debugging, you can type "exit" to leave the subshell.) make[1]: *** [installed/mpir-1.2.p9] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/sage-4.2.1/spkg' real 5m23.163s user 3m22.339s sys 1m21.842s Error building Sage. -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org