#12659: build the sage library in place
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Reporter: mhansen | Owner: GeorgSWeber
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.3
Component: build | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: Mike Hansen | Reviewers: William Stein
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: | Commit:
Dependencies: #13363 | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by nthiery):
As I mentionned on sage-devel, I recently noticed some preliminary
work in src/setup.py toward compiling the Sage library in place,
instead of putting the produced .so and copies of the .py files in
src/build.
Compiling in place means saving 15s of `sage -b` each time I just
modify Python code, and I do that all the time; so we are speaking of
dozen of minutes per day. So I have been dreaming of it for
years. Besides, it would also remove one of the regular source of
confusions for our new contributors.
So I explored this further, and with very minimal further changes ,
this apparently seems to work smoothly: I haven't yet run all tests,
but Sage starts, the documentation compiles, etc.
See branch u/nthiery/compile_library_inplace:
http://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/commit/?h=u/nthiery/compile_library_inplace
I can't wait until I can use this for real Sage development. But for
this, I basically need to get this feature into Sage. It would be
adventurous to enable this feature by default for all users at this
point. On the other hand, we should allow the adventurous of us to use
this extensively to chase out the bugs.
What would be the right approach to make this feature configurable
when one compiles Sage for the first time? Using just an environment
variable set by the user is not good, since a given user might have
Sage installations configured differently. Some piece of information
must be stored somewhere at configuration time.
I am happy to use a different ticket for this if this is deemed
preferable.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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