On 15 July 2010 18:15, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM,  <drkir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 15, 2010 4:55pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:51 PM, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Jul 15, 6:34 am, Robert Miller r...@rlmiller.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> >> PS --- Let's be sure to check "deps" to make sure that gfan has all
>>>
>>> >> its dependencies, since we have recently jumbled that file around.
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> > The "deps" for gfan hasn't changed since 4.3.4.alpha1 (the oldest
>>>
>>> > version I have on this computer).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This doesn't prove anything, unfortunately. For example with the
>>>
>>> "fortran on OS X" issue we just fixed, the fortran deps line hadn't
>>>
>>> changed, but by luck the problem hadn't happened before, since --
>>>
>>> purely by luck -- fortran always get built after python.
>>
>>
>> That's not true.
>
> Ugh.

Read the rest of my email. It may be true on your OS X box, but it is
certainly not true in general.

>> Usually on my system, fortran built well before python.
>> However, since I have a working version of python on the system the lack of
>> a python in Sage did not matter.
>>
>> I think the build order will be alphabetical on serial builds, in the
>> absence of stated dependencies - see my post on sage-devel. I suspect with a
>> lot of new dependencies added recently, the build order is changing a lot.
>>
>> Dave

Dave

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