Re: [sage-devel] Re: 'make distclean' is not removing $SAGE_ROOT/sage*.png

[David Kirkby]

On 10 March 2011 13:48, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
> On 3/10/11 4:48 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>>
>> The title pretty much says it all. I don't know these files get created,
>> but somewhere in the build & test process of sage-4.6.2.rc1 there are
>> some files created in $SAGE_ROOT. I don't really think it's a great idea
>> creating file there, but in any case 'make distclean' is not removing
>> them.
>
> What do the files look like?  My first guess is that some of the plot
> commands are creating files when they shouldn't (or where they shouldn't).
>  Maybe it's a test of the plot save command that doesn't use the temporary
> directory that doctests should use.
>
> Jason

Yes, they are plots - see

http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/unwanted-pgn-files-in-SAGE_ROOT

I've got no idea how they are created - I assume when doctesting, as
they are not there when Sage is built

Dave

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