On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 11:48:13 AM UTC-7, Emmanuel Charpentier 
wrote:
>
> Mirabile dictu, it worked ! But it's a strange thing : AFAIK, ./configure 
> is used to adapt a source to the specifics of a platform. This (usually) 
> does not change between recompilations.
>

> Except that Sagemath source carries a lot of its own buildig platform (e. 
> g. gcc...). Is that the explanation ?
>
 
I believe that the configure script detects the version of each Sage 
package it needs to install, so if you want to update a package, you need 
to run ./configure so that it knows to build the new one instead of the old 
one.

  John

 

>
> Thanks, John !
>
> Le mercredi 28 octobre 2015 18:32:06 UTC+1, John H Palmieri a écrit :
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 10:19:51 AM UTC-7, Emmanuel Charpentier 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Case in point : Trac#19469 <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19469>. 
>>> This ticket will solve an annoying quirk un the Ipython notebook.
>>>
>>> I tested it successfully on one installation, by recompiling the whole 
>>> hog ( make distclean && make ).
>>>
>>> I have another installation, now up to 6.10beta1. I did successfully :
>>> git trac checkout 
>>> make (rebuilds the documentation, by the way...)
>>>
>>
>> Try 
>>
>> ./configure
>> make
>>
>> (although there is an open ticket which would make ./configure 
>> unnecessary).
>>
>>   John
>>
>>
>>> The resulting Sage still has the "old" behaviour.
>>>
>>> I also tried ./sage -b in $SAGE_ROOT. Same result.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to force the recompilation-reinstallation of the Ipythobn 
>>> notebook ? I know that neither ./sage -i notebook or ./sage -f notebook 
>>> work : these calls fail with complaining that they cannot find the source 
>>> tarball... Further attempts to use this installation fail with the same 
>>> error (sage has somehow registered that the Ipytho notebook is missing and 
>>> tries to install it, unsuccessfully...).
>>>
>>> What am I missing ?
>>>
>>>

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