On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:13 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Monday, February 20, 2012 2:43:29 PM UTC-8, Benjamin Jones wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:39 PM, François Bissey wrote:
>> <snip>
>> > There are efforts to parallelize the building of the doc and I would say
>> > that
>> > if it gets merged we may very well put the doc back into sage and just
>> > build
>> > it. We could keep fetching pre-built doc for thos who want on slow
>> > systems.
>> >
>> > Francois
>> >
>>
>> Is there currently any way to prevent Sage from building the docs when
>> one downloads a new tarball, i.e. something like setting
>> SAGE_ATLAS_LIB="..." to avoid building atlas every time a new beta is
>> released?
>
> As François points out, running "make build" will build Sage and its
> component parts without building the documentation.  Since the documentation
> is viewed as an integral part of Sage, if you run doctests on Sage in this
> state, there will be failures (in devel/sage/sage/misc/sagedoc.py, if I
> remember right).
>
> I don't think we need another environment variable for this.
>

I didn't realize there is a 'build' target. That makes sense, thanks!
This will save my poor old laptop many cpu cycles. I agree there's no
need to another environment variable.

> --
> John
>

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