On 5 Feb, 04:07, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 3, 11:33 pm, Dr David Kirkby <drkir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Than you for finding this error John. It's strange, I never se this on > > Solaris myself, though William says he has seen it before on Linux. > > IHopefully, this bug can be squashed, though it is not as serious as > > the one which is stopping Sage building on Solaris. I could image I > > could have wasted a lot of time on this, if it was intermittant, but > > under the false impression is was introduced under one of the 5 or so > > tickets merged, though as William says, this is perhaps a new > > invocation of it. Anyway,once my build has finished, I'll see whether > > I get the error, then try your patch. > > Here's the situation, as far as I understand it: in versions from > around August 2009 up to and including 4.3.0, the first time you would > execute a graph theory command, say graphs.CompleteGraph(2), it would > call kpsewhich. If you didn't have a tex installation, it would > probably print the error message. (I always have tex installed, and I > rarely use graph theory, so I wasn't going to see this unless I made a > real effort.) Version 4.3.1 (and also 4.3.0.1.alpha3) included a patch > which ended up calling graphs.CompleteGraph(2) when Sage started up > (as the default value of an optional argument of a function imported > in sage.all), and this is what was going on with the t2 build. > Somewhere in the 4.3.2 development, a patch got put in that deferred > the call to graphs.... until needed, so the message went away until > you ran a graph theory function. That's why I didn't see it when I > tried reproducing it with 4.3.2.alpha2 on my Mac. > > -- > John
Thank you for the explanation. It makes perfect sence. I did inded see this in 4.3.0.1.alpha3 immediately I started Sage. I can understand why some would have sen this in the past too, though not every time as now. 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
