Error running make to build Sage on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

I am attempting to compile Sage on Ubuntu 16.04. I downloaded the binaries and installed a package. I run "make" in my Sage directory and this is what I get:

> [maxima-5.35.1.p2] Now installing the Maxima library as
> '/home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/local/lib/ecl//maxima.fas'...
> [maxima-5.35.1.p2]  [maxima-5.35.1.p2] real   5m8.176s
> [maxima-5.35.1.p2] user   4m31.916s [maxima-5.35.1.p2] sys    0m20.496s
> [maxima-5.35.1.p2] Successfully installed maxima-5.35.1.p2
> [maxima-5.35.1.p2] Deleting temporary build directory
> [maxima-5.35.1.p2]
> /home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/local/var/tmp/sage/build/maxima-5.35.1.p2
> [maxima-5.35.1.p2] Finished installing maxima-5.35.1.p2.spkg cd ../..
> && sage-logger -p './sage --docbuild --no-pdf-links all html '
> logs/dochtml.log [dochtml]
> /home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/local/bin/python:
> /home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/local/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version
> `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by
> /home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/local/lib/libbrial.so.0);
> 'sage_setup.docbuild' is a package and cannot be directly executed
> Makefile:1023: recipe for target 'doc-html' failed make[2]: ***
> [doc-html] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/build/make' Makefile:846: recipe for
> target 'all' failed make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving
> directory '/home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/build/make'
> 
> real  110m50.466s user    102m18.460s sys 5m7.284s
> *************************************************************** Error building Sage.
> 

The following package(s) may have failed to build (not necessarily during this run of 'make all'):

The build directory may contain configuration files and other potentially helpful information. WARNING: if you now run 'make' again, the build directory will, by default, be deleted. Set the environment variable SAGE_KEEP_BUILT_SPKGS to 'yes' to prevent this.

Makefile:16: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 1

Following the suggestion in the error message, I changed my environmental variables as follows (I added the second line):

~/Desktop/SageMath$ cat /etc/environment PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games" export SAGE_KEEP_BUILT_SPKGS=yes

Then, following a suggestion here I executed the following:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++6

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

When I run "make", I still get the following errors:

> [sagelib-7.3]  [sagelib-7.3] real 0m4.203s [sagelib-7.3] user 0m3.516s
> [sagelib-7.3] sys 0m0.460s cd ../.. && sage-logger -p './sage
> --docbuild --no-pdf-links all html ' logs/dochtml.log [dochtml] /home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/local/bin/python:
> /home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/local/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version
> `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by
> /home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/local/lib/libbrial.so.0);
> 'sage_setup.docbuild' is a package and cannot be directly executed
> Makefile:1023: recipe for target 'doc-html' failed make[2]: ***
> [doc-html] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/build/make' Makefile:846: recipe for
> target 'all' failed make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving
> directory '/home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/build/make'
> 
> real  0m6.692s user   0m5.536s sys    0m0.800s
> *************************************************************** Error building Sage.
> 
> The following package(s) may have failed to build (not necessarily
> during this run of 'make all'):
> 
> The build directory may contain configuration files and other
> potentially helpful information. WARNING: if you now run 'make' again,
> the build directory will, by default, be deleted. Set the environment
> variable SAGE_KEEP_BUILT_SPKGS to 'yes' to prevent this.
> 
> Makefile:16: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 1

Can someone please advise? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

1. Verify your current libstdc++ has GLIBCXX_3.4.21:

   strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 | grep GLIBCXX_3.4.21
   

2. Create a symlink as follows:

   ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.21 /home/davidk/Desktop/SageMath/local/lib/libstdc++.so.6
   

3. make