On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Craig Citro<craigci...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Perhaps this facility exists. If not, do others thinks it would be worth >> adding? >> > > Yep, this is very handy -- and indeed already exists. Try sage -f -m > foo.spkg. (I have no idea what "m" stands for ... maybe William does?)
It used to be that nothing was deleted from spkg/build during the build process. Hence during the *m*ake process, sage-spkg was always run with the -m flag, for "make". However, now-a-days not deleting from spkg/build would use up too much disk space in most cases. So it's a historical accident. I remember the moment I named it that thinking "I will regret this choice of name". > This will leave everything in $SAGE_ROOT/spkg/build after building the > spkg. > > Or, alternatively, if you wanted it to work for *every* spkg, you > could change the default value of DELETE_TMP on line 76 of > $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-spkg. It would be nice to make an environment variable that makes this happen no matter what, as David Kirkby suggested aobve. One way would be to change the variable DELETE_TMP to SAGE_DELETE_TMP then change line 76 to only set it to 0 if it is not already defined. That would I think nicely do the trick. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
