rubiks is failing to install proplerly on AIX as it's assuming the GNU install program.

[drkirkby]

Hardware and software

• IBM ​RS/6000 7025 F50
• 4 x 332 MHz 32-bit PowerPC CPUs
• 3 GB RAM
• A fairly wide mixture of disks sizes (3 x 9 GB, 1 x 18 GB, 2 x 36 GB and 1 x 73 GB)
• DDS-4 tape drive
• AIX 5.3 (A POSIX certified operating system)
• gcc 4.2.4 downloaded from ​pware
• sage-4.6.alpha1

The Problem

rubiks is failing to install. I believe it is believing the install program is the GNU install, whereas in fact IBM provide their own on AIX, which is not compatible.

This is the first install program in the PATH

-bash-4.1$ command -v install
/usr/bin/install

We can see this is not the GNU install program.

-bash-4.1$ /usr/bin/install -h
getopt: Not a recognized flag: h
Usage: install [-c DirectoryA] [-f DirectoryB] [-i] [-m] [-M Mode] [-O Owner]
               [-G Group] [-S] [-n DirectoryC] [-o] [-s] File [DirectoryX ...]
-bash-4.1$ /usr/bin/install --help
getopt: Not a recognized flag: -
getopt: Not a recognized flag: h
getopt: Not a recognized flag: e
getopt: Not a recognized flag: l
getopt: Not a recognized flag: p
Usage: install [-c DirectoryA] [-f DirectoryB] [-i] [-m] [-M Mode] [-O Owner]
               [-G Group] [-S] [-n DirectoryC] [-o] [-s] File [DirectoryX ...]

This results in some odd permission problems when rubiks tries to install itself:

gcc -O -DLARGE_MEM -DVERBOSE -o sizekoc2 sizekoc2.o
size sizekoc2
sizekoc2: 48541 + 2387 + 409577660 + 2525 + 77886 = 409708999
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/users/drkirkby/sage-4.6.alpha1/spkg/build/rubiks-20070912.p12/src/dik'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/users/drkirkby/sage-4.6.alpha1/spkg/build/rubiks-20070912.p12/src/reid'
make[3]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add `+' to parent make rule.
gcc  -O2  -g  -Wall     optimal.c   -o optimal
gcc  -O2  -g  -Wall     twist.c   -o twist
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/users/drkirkby/sage-4.6.alpha1/spkg/build/rubiks-20070912.p12/src/reid'
mkdir -p /home/users/drkirkby/sage-4.6.alpha1/local/bin
/usr/bin/install reid/optimal /home/users/drkirkby/sage-4.6.alpha1/local/bin
find: cannot chdir to </etc/security> : Permission denied
find: cannot chdir to </etc/tunables> : Permission denied
find: cannot chdir to </etc/iscsi> : Permission denied
find: cannot chdir to </etc/ppp> : Permission denied
find: cannot chdir to </usr/lib/boot/network> : Permission denied
find: cannot chdir to </usr/lib/drivers/crypto> : Permission denied
install: File optimal was not found.
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/users/drkirkby/sage-4.6.alpha1/spkg/build/rubiks-20070912.p12/src'

real    10m38.826s
user    5m19.612s
sys     0m8.383s
sage: An error occurred while installing rubiks-20070912.p12

[drkirkby]

Build failure observed on an RS/6000 running AIX 5.3.

[embray]

I don't believe anyone's been maintaining support for AIX or HP-UX for some time. Putting in sage-wishlist for now in case there is still a desire for it out there, otherwise these tickets should be closed (most of them are probably no longer relevant in any case but I have no obvious way to check this).

[mkoeppe]

We should close this ticket as outdated.