If you look on the thread " Do we need "cp -a" - or would 'cp -pR' do ?"
you may have noticed that Gonzalo Tornaria has discovered that "local/bin/python" is a hardlink to "local/bin/python2.6". From what I understand, this is the only hard link in Sage. It would be better if this could be replaced by a symbolic link. Does anyone know why is is a hard link? As far as I can see, python-2.6.2.p4/spkg-install creates a symbolic link. It has the line: ln -s python2.6 python It's not clear to me 1) Why the hard link is created. It is intentional? If so, why is it the only hard link in Sage, when all others are symbolic? 2) Where is the code that actually creates the link? All I can find is an attempt to create a symbolic link in python-2.6.2.p4/spkg-install. This hard link is almost certainly making the OS X binary larger than it needs to be, and causes other issues too. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
