FWIW, the very same mishap just happened to me <https://groups.google.com/g/sage-release/c/FezzF5Q7Wt4/m/Ym96vVViBAAJ> on Debian.testing.
What I fail to understand is why Sake was linked to a *specific* version of libflint.so, rather than to the *generic* version… Le mercredi 20 juillet 2022 à 22:42:58 UTC+2, Nils Bruin a écrit : > I've noticed that after a modest upgrade (just "dnf update"), with some > regularity sage breaks. In the most recent edition, "libflint.so" couldn't > be found. > > I guess there is some prerequisite that sage was relying on to be provided > by the operating system was changed? Is sage relying on the system python > nowadays? > > The only way I have found to clean this up is by doing a "make distclean", > which makes for quite a heavy rebuild process! Is there a more modest > approach? > > It's nice that we're integrating better with OS-supplied prerequisites, > but it mixes very badly with building from source on an actual system one > works on: > > I can see the nightmare scenario where you've run a small system update > (as one should do to keep up-to-date with vulnerabilities) in the evening > (or perhaps your computer did it for you!) and the next morning you arrive > in front of the class with a demo where you now discover that sage is > broken and requires an hour's worth of build time to get up to snuff again. > > Is there a better/safer way of having both an up-to-date system and a > reliable sage install? > > [Is the problem perhaps that fedora bumps the default "python" to a newer > version for which sage doesn't have its libraries built/accessible? In that > case: fedora doesn't delete older versions. I can still run python3.9 or > python3.8. So in that case perhaps sage should be a little more careful > about what python interpreter it chooses and be a bit more explicit about > it (or at least have an option for that)?. I don't know if "python" is the > problem] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/5b10fce5-a79e-4c55-af96-ee26f0f1039bn%40googlegroups.com.
