On Monday 29 October 2007, Anton Mellit wrote: > Hi, > > I find it difficult to build the full SAGE on my computer (cygwin/ > Windows) Is it possible to build some minimal running version of > sage, which would simply start the sage shell and then build only the > packages I need? > > Or is it possible to use SAGE just as a bunch of Python modules + some > shell like ipython? > > I don't quite understand why you have this original build system > instead of using the old configure/make which is used by all other > software? The point is that configure/make framework is used heavily, > is known to everybody and it was tested for decades, so that people > do not get so much build problems like in your case. You see, in > configure/make if i have problem I simply go edit some makefile or > some source file, or completely eliminate some module, then compile > again, it recompiles only the part i modified... Here I even do not > know where to go. I am getting a problem with some funny package i > don't need and I cannot build the whole system.
Hi, it is pretty difficult to help you out with your problem if you don't provide any information what your actual problem is. All you give us is a rant about configure/make and 'funny package'. Thus, all I can say is: (a) Sage uses make, so you can "simply go edit some makefile or some source file, or completely eliminate some module, then compile again, it recompiles only the part i modified..." You will have to read the makefile like you would for any other make based system. (b) It doesn't make much sense to provide a central configure for all packages Sage ships. Sage ships with ~ 70 very heterogeneous third party (!) modules each having it's own configuration. How shall we provide one configure script that is capable of passing the correct options to any sub-configure for such a variety of scripts? This would be a maintenance nightmare. Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-forum URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
