#5994: singular.version() yields an error when first called, has no doctest, and
has a strange output imo
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Reporter: SimonKing | Owner: was
Type: defect | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.4
Component: interfaces | Resolution:
Keywords: singular version | Merged in:
help.cnf | Reviewers:
Authors: William Stein, | Work issues:
Simon King | Commit:
Report Upstream: Reported | a2ae8c869553c8aff5404ef2cfcaf95d2f8eac52
upstream. Developers deny it's a | Stopgaps:
bug. |
Branch: |
u/SimonKing/singular_version_yielding_error|
Dependencies: |
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Comment (by jdemeyer):
Replying to [comment:42 SimonKing]:
> Replying to [comment:41 jdemeyer]:
> > Replying to [comment:37 SimonKing]:
> > > But for now, we need a work-around in Sage.
> > I suggest you just change `spkg-install` to touch the empty file
`$SAGE_SHARE/singular/help.cnf`
>
> Why not modify spkg-install, so that it installs the missing file?
Alternatively, we could patch Singular's Makefile (or whatever it is
called) so that it installs the missing file. What is the preferred way?
I don't really care much.
> Hang on. I just notice that the singular spkg apparently screws
completely. Or how would you explain that I find the complete UNPACKED
singular source tree in SAGE_LOCAL/upstream/ ?
Probably you once extracted the tarball in `upstream`? It's not the
package which does that...
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/5994#comment:44>
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