On May 23, 2010, at 1:12 PM, leif wrote: > On 23 Mai, 21:40, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> 'lcalc' had a particularly annoying attempt to cover up warnings from the >> assembler, as it actually caused the build to break on Solaris, as the >> option to >> cover up the warnings was passed directly to the Sun assembler, but it did >> not >> accept the option. > > They seem to think gcc (the compiler driver) will be smart enough to > know all options passed to any component of the tool chain, even if > passed verbatim ;-) > >> IMHO, the quality of the coding in Sage leaves a lot to be desired in places. > > One of my current favorites is a snippet from sage-build: > > cd "$SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage" > echo "*** TOUCHING ALL CYTHON (.pyx) FILES ***" > touch */*.pyx */*/*.pyx */*/*/*.pyx */*/*/*/*.pyx */*/*/*/*/*.pyx */ > */*/*/*/*.pyx */*/*/*/*/*/*.pyx 2> /dev/null > > Reminds me of M$-DOS, where the "shell" did not expand wildcards. (If > you have fun, count the asterisks...) > > -Leif
Instead of keeping this as a favorite, implement a better version, and post a patch. -- William > > -- > 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 -- 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
