On Friday, March 18, 2016 at 1:12:50 PM UTC, William wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Yes definitely. It worked very well for precisely this use case for a > >> decade. > > > > > > well, it was quite often a source of trouble (I can point to dozens of > > requests for help caused by LD_... paths issues), and then it has > reached > > the point when OSX won't support it. > > OS X is not relevant here -- the use case is "build Sage on a Linux > server, then make a copy of it on the same server". > IMHO OSX servers do exist, too :-)
> > > Finally, let me point out that the current rpath setup works, and needs > just > > minor tweaks to become as quick as the old one. > > Thus, again, why would you want it back? > > I want something that actually works efficiently; that's all. From > the above report from David it sounds like the current rpath setup > doesn't work.[...] > of course it does work - if it did not, then no binary distributions of Sage would work! It is not too well documented, perhaps, or perhaps it is, but people assume that they can just "cp -a" and it would not break anything. Indeed there is a current mildly annoying bug that rebuilds all the cython files (and docs). But this is not too slow, ~1h or less, (and it is fixable, too). Send Volker a PR. > > Unfortunately, the relocation script is run at the end of the > installation, making it uncopyable. > > Maybe you can disable that script in the source code before building > Sage? I personally routinely stridisable sage-location-whatever-it-is > these days before doing anything with Sage. I build a system-wide > sage that I never move, but relocation scripts are constantly trying > to run anyways, due to symlinks, or whatever. You can put "exit 0" > (or sys.exit(0)) at the top of whatever script is causing the trouble, > so it doesn't run... > > William > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
