#4261: [with patch, positive review] sympow Configure fails to handle aliases
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Reporter: wjp | Owner: mabshoff
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-3.2.1
Component: build | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Changes (by was):
* summary: [with patch, needs work] sympow Configure fails to handle
aliases => [with patch, positive review] sympow
Configure fails to handle aliases
Comment:
{{{
Hi,
Based on Mark's remark below, I give #4261 a positive review, since it
does
in fact do just what Mark suggests below.
William
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Mark Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> William Stein wrote:
>> Do you guy's have any comments on this:
>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4261
>> I'm tempted to mark it invalid, but maybe I'm missing the point.
>
> I think I agree that the problem is with the shell-version of alias.
>
> I was only trying to make something that would be more likely to work
than
> the simple /bin/rm, etc., but it seems that I failed. Probably it is
safe to
> just use $RM=rm (same with $CP, $TAR, $MKDIR, $TOUCH) in the Makefile
and
> hope the user has a sufficient path. Also, echo might be shell-
dependent.
>
> I think some buildutils simply tree-search the path and/or the
> whole directory structure, but I didn't want to attempt that.
>
> ===
> Mark Watkins
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
}}}
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