On Saturday, November 26, 2011 2:30:06 AM UTC-8, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > Proposal: > > 1) In sage-env, do not add $SAGE_ROOT to the $PATH. > 2) Rename local/bin/sage-sage to local/bin/sage > > Reason: > > The python 2.7.2 package checks whether hg is available and runs hg > during the build process. Now imagine you have a system-wide Sage > install. Then hg is found in /usr/local/bin/hg, which is just a script > to execute sage --hg "$@". But now "sage" is found in SAGE_ROOT, the > sage we are just installing. Running this obviously fails because we > have not finished building sage. If SAGE_ROOT would not be in the PATH, > then SAGE_ROOT/sage would not be executed, instead the intended > /usr/local/bin/sage would be executed. >
I would suggest instead removing SAGE_ROOT from PATH during the relevant part of the python spkg installation. -- John -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
