On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 6:20:53 AM UTC-7, Volker Braun wrote: > > IMHO we shouldn't support this (i.e. moving the sage install around). Just > fail with an error message that you moved the sage install tree, you need > to rebuild (make distclean && make) before continuing. It doesn't have > anything to do with Sage really, usually if you compile something and then > move the object directory around then it won't work because of rpaths in > shared libraries. >
Sage does (or at least did) support this, though, and quite a bit of work went into having a sage-relocate script that takes care of the relocations. I always thought this was a very convenient feature. Do you have a particular argument why maintaining this feature now is harder than it used to be? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" 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 http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
