On 10/5/07, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am on my way to Berlin so might not be able to look into this until Monday. 
> Sorry for messing up, I just didn't expect doctest failures.
>

Interestingly, I applied your slightly updated singular package,
and did "sage -ba", and somehow the problems went away
on one system.  But on another system they persist.
This is pretty frustrating, but we'll see what happens....

 -- William

> -original message-
> Subject: [sage-devel] Re: new singular package on os x
> From: "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 05/10/2007 16:23
>
>
> On 10/5/07, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >     http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/sage-2.8.6.pre2.tar
> > >
> > > It has the new singular package, and a new cython package.
> > > It's actually going to probably be somewhat difficult to release,
> > > because of build problems, I think.   (I won't be able to work
> > > on it for a day or two, either.)
> >
> > fixed in /home/malb/pkgs/singular-3-0-3-1-20071005.spkg
> >
>
> Martin,
>
> Thanks!  That works and builds on OSX, both intel and ppc.
>
> Another problem now is that doctesting this file fails
> many times with the new Sage prerelease:
>
> devel/sage-main/sage/rings/polynomial/polynomial_singular_interface.py
>
> The errors all involve killing variables that aren't defined anymore
> (which is something singular hates doing).
>
> If you comment out the "kill %s" code in interfaces/singular.py, then
> all the errors go away.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a problem with the new version of Singular, or
> a change somewhere else in Sage, etc.    So, two questions:
>
>   (1) Is there a way to do the following in Singular:
>      if the variable var is defined then
>           del var
>
>  (2) If "no" to 1, could you at least build the prerelease, try doctesting
> that file, and see if anything occurs to you?
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
>  William
>
> >
>
>


-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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