Hi Jason, I wasn't aware of the "ditto" command, thanks for that!
The -upgrade was a lot faster, indeed. It was done over lunch. Cheers, Stan Jason Grout wrote: > Stan Schymanski wrote: > >> Thanks for your help! >> >> cp does not have the -a option on my mac and cp -pR leads to the >> following error message after startup: >> > > > Oh, that's right. On a mac, the "ditto" command is nice. > > > >> "Warning: something went wrong updating the easy-install.pth file." >> >> However, this time no other problems occurred and I was able to run the >> notebook server from the new directory, so I proceeded with running >> ./sage -upgrade. Another warning message came up: >> >> "WARNING: This is a source/based upgrade, which could take hours, fail >> and render your Sage install useless!!" >> >> It's not a problem since I'm running it on the Sage copy now, but >> 'hours' is what a fresh compilation from source would take anyway, so >> would I possibly be better off installing the whole thing from source? >> I'll see how long it takes. >> > > > Well, IIRC, it won't have to compile spkgs that didn't change. However, > for every spkg that has been updated, you will have to compile that > spkg. Typically it's much faster than compiling fresh from source. > > Jason > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
