Unable to compile sage
I've spent more than an hour trying to create a google account so that I can report serious problems I'm having with compiling the sagemath source code but google won't let me create an account. Its very unreasonable for sagemath to require users to create a google account just to get support. Why not use github or an independent website? Just because they are closely tied with google doesn't mean they have to force users to bend to their will.
Any way, the problem is that I get this error when trying to build sagemath on fedora 28:
Error building Sage.
The following package(s) may have failed to build (not necessarily
during this run of 'make all-start'):
* package: ppl-1.2.p1
log file: /home/user/sagemath/src/logs/pkgs/ppl-1.2.p1.log
build directory: /home/user/sagemath/inst/var/tmp/sage/build/ppl-1.2.p1
* package: zeromq-4.0.5.p2
log file: /home/user/sagemath/src/logs/pkgs/zeromq-4.0.5.p2.log
build directory: /home/user/sagemath/inst/var/tmp/sage/build/zeromq-4.0.5.p2
Emailing
sage-support@googlegroups.comshould work without creating an account; doesn't it?Anyway, welcome to Ask Sage (where account creation is hopefully easy), and thanks for your question.
thanks for the link, I was not aware there was another way to contact the. Hopefully they respond to emails with the same urgency as they seem to do for posts. I'm glad I found this sight and that access is easy and communication seamless.
@slelievre the email you provided doesn't work. It is either that the email no longer exists or that it is set up to block any sent messages from arriving. Is there another way to get in touch with sage support?
It is unfortunate nowadays that Google Groups' web interface makes it very difficult to figure out how to send a message to a groups without a Google account :( One secret is you can join the group with an arbitrary e-mail address by appending
/jointo the URL, like https://groups.google.com/forum/#!for... and you can post your non-google e-mail address. Also, as @slelievre wrote you can send an e-mail directly to the group but I believe first time posters are moderated, so it might not appear to go directly through.Anyways without seeing more, it would be almost impossible to say what's wrong. Can you tell from the log whether it was ppl or zeromq that failed to build? And if so, please post somewhere the logs for the failing packages (the paths to which are included in the build failure message).
FWIW I just did a build from scratch of Sage 8.3.rc0 on a fresh Fedora 28 install and it went fine. Not that that's of immediate help; obviously something went wrong for you. Just mentioning that as a data point--that you might start looking for reasons your system might be different from a fresh install--if there are any odd packages you have installed, etc. Not that that should matter in principle, but it might.
Were you trying to build based on Python3 or based on Python2?
I was trying to build with Python3 at first but after being told how much trouble this would cause I started all over with python 2. Yet I am still getting the same problems, this time it is just
ppl-1.2.p1that failed the test.