I've noticed a couple of issues on Solaris, where it appears packages have been installed properly (the $SAGE_HOME/spkg/installed/foobar is created), but this has not actually happened.
On one occasion 'cp -a' was called, which failed to copy files to $SAGE_HOME/local/include, as '-a' is not an option on Solaris to the cp command. Sun's 'cp' reported this as an error, but this did not cause the 'make' to stop. On another occasion, singular fails to install files with 'install-sh' as it could not find install-sh. This is despite there being about 15 copies of install-sh in the singular distribution!!! I think it is only luck that it worked on linux, as the path given in singular is broken. It would be a good idea when creating new .spkg files that one actually checks that at least a subset of the files that are supposed to be installed in $SAGE_HOME/local, actually are installed - preferably all of them if possible. Comments? Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
