William Stein wrote: > 2009/12/13 Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]>: >> I've had some error messages whilst trying to create a binary distribution of >> Sage on Solaris. cp is complaining about broken link. >> >> So I decided to build Sage on linux and see if the link is broken there too, >> which it is. >> >> >> >> kir...@sage:~/sage-4.3.rc0/local/lib/python2.6$ ls -l python2.6 >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 kirkby kirkby 9 2009-12-13 11:23 python2.6 -> python2.6 >> kir...@sage:~/sage-4.3.rc0/local/lib/python2.6$ file python2.6 >> python2.6: broken symbolic link to `python2.6' >> >> I think we should remove local/lib/python2.6/python2.6 >> >> Comments? > > We need to figure out what creates that file and get rid of it. > Presumably it is some line in the spkg-install for the python spkg. > > William
It does not appear to be created in spkg-install. I looked over that spkg-install, and can't see it. Perhaps you can. There several directories deleted, then a link made, but I can't see this incorrect link being made. I think it must be the python distribution, which by the way is a couple of versions out of date. But there are so many patches to python in Sage, I was a bit reluctant to attempt an update of the python .spkg This is also a rather annoying hard-link created in python - the only hard link in the whole of Sage. Someone (forget who) found the line in the python distribution which does that, but I was a bit reluctant to start patching python. Perhaps I should, as that hard link creates issues on Solaris. It would apear POSIX is not explicit about how hard links are copied, which would be a good reason for replacing this with a symbolic link. But I am not too happy about attempting to upgrade a package I know little about, and don't understand fully. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
