On 05/11/10 07:56 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net <mailto:david.kir...@onetel.net>> wrote:Has the version of ECL been updated recently? I insist that this is not a regression, it is just a misinterpretation on our side of how mkstemp() should work (adding characters other than letters seems stupid but it is specified as a possibility), so reverting wouldn't help 3) A long term solution is to fix the bug in ECL. I can produce a patch but it will take me some time. Could you please confirm that you received these emails, because some of my answers do not seem to permeate into your responses. Juanjo
I got one other email from you - with a link to the bug report on sourceforge. If there was another, then I did not see it.
I understand ECL assumes there is something special about the dot in a filename. You have assume it is an extension, when in fact it need not be, as POSIX does not prohibit the use of a . in a temp file.
I think a short term solution is the ecl install script is sage is modified to remove the /tmp/ECL files once the build has finished. Of course, that will fail if two people building ECL at the same time, but it *may* be ok if there is only one person building it, though I'm not sure from your description. If the issue is the name of the file, not just that it is there, then it seems we can't even assume that. But I think deleting /tmp/ECL* is worthwhile. Doing it via cron has allowed Minh to build ECL, so hopefully it will work in most cases. I think you are implying we can't guarantee this, but working
I've created http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8951 I'll create a patch for that. It should be quite easy. 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
