The following problem, which is ticket
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7645 is one more example of where trying to build Sage on an uncommon platform (HP-UX) discovers bugs which affect *all* platforms. This is yet one more justification of why it is desirable to write POSIX compatible portable code and check Sage on many platforms. As you can see below, python does not build on my HP C3600 running HP-UX 11i, but we have no clue whatsoever why. Normally Sage would give some clue, but here there is none. python-2.6.2.p4/src/Tools/world/README python-2.6.2.p4/src/Tools/world/world Finished extraction **************************************************** Host system uname -a: HP-UX hpbox B.11.11 U 9000/785 2016698240 unlimited-user license **************************************************** **************************************************** CC Version gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11 Configured with: /tmp/gcc-4.3.3.tar.gz/gcc-4.3.3/configure --host=hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11 --target=hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11 --build=hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11 --prefix=/opt/hp-gcc-4.3.3 --with-gnu-as --without-gnu-ld --enable-threads=posix --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-gmp=/proj/opensrc/be/hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11 --with-mpfr=/proj/opensrc/be/hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) **************************************************** real 0m0.111s user 0m0.050s sys 0m0.040s sage: An error occurred while installing python-2.6.2.p4 The reason no error message is generated, is due to the inappropriate use of 'set -e' in the spkg-install script. The package python-2.6.2.p4 has in spkg-install the following code. # This tells Bash to exit the script if any statement returns # a non-true value. set -e # PATCH cp patches/ctypes__init__.py src/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "Error copying patched ctypes" exit 1 fi cp patches/locale.py src/Lib/ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "Error copying patched locale.py" exit 1 fi It should be noted that 'set -e' causes any failure to result in the script exiting immediately with a non-zero exit code. Since the script has exited, no further processing takes place - even the code which checks for an error! Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
