#13561: Supply nice error message when starting $SAGE_ROOT/sage without
compiling
Sage first
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Reporter: kini | Owner: leif
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.5
Component: scripts | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: Jeroen Demeyer
Authors: Keshav Kini | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by jdemeyer):
Replying to [comment:18 ppurka]:
> Replying to [comment:17 jdemeyer]:
> > Why are you checking for a symbolic link, we should not rely on that.
You should replace `-L` by `-f`.
> Why so? Do you expect the file type to change between different versions
of Sage?
I don't ''expect'' it to change, but it seems strange to '''require'''
that `libcsage.so` is a symbolic link. Also, the `-L` test will succeed if
it is a broken symbolic link.
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