Just from a purely pragmatic perspective, I would love if for binary builds the libraries (especially libstdc++) used during building would be *available* (not necessarily linked to) by default. Several times I ran into a situation where I quickly wanted to test something with a new version of sage on a (redhat or fedora) machine for which no precisely matching binary was available. libstdc++ seems to be a particularly volatile library (i.e., gets upgraded with pretty much every OS release), and hence binaries that were one version off would not work. After tracking down the appropriate version of libstdc++ and putting that in $SAGE_ROOT/local/lib, everything worked fine.
In other situations I gave up on finding the appropriate library and submitted to a 3 hour compile from source or abandoned the project. I would have much preferred to have done something like ln -s $SAGE_ROOT/buildtime/lib/* $SAGE_ROOT/local/lib and got on with the job. I do not control which version of the OS these machines are running and do not have administrative permissions on them. -- 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
