On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > On Jun 2, 2010, at 4:42 AM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >>>> today, running "./sage -t filename" did not succeed on my system. After >>>> a while, I could figure out with some help of Burcin that my setup of >>>> sage was too much using symbolic links. In fact, after I removed "sage" >>>> from being available via PATH, the above command succeeded. >> >>> Could you elaborate? >> >> Can you tell me what you need? If I invest any time in figuring out a >> proper bug description, I'll probably find and fix the bug myself.
That doesn't sound like a bad outcome :-) > > I was just wondering if there was a clear way to reproduce it, but it sounds > like something more subtle. > >> The problem is that with every call of sage (and sub-scripts) sage tries >> to figure out what SAGE_ROOT is. I haven't set SAGE_ROOT. (Why should I >> clutter up my environment? I expect sage to work properly without >> setting SAGE_ROOT.) > If Sage is properly installed, it will. >> I consider this behaviour of sage wrong by design, >> so I wrote a SEP. But that's just me and so I'll shut up. > > > I think it's useful to have a *single* entry point where SAGE_ROOT (and > SAGE_LOCAL, etc.) are all resolved and defined, as well as all paths and > other necessary bits, and from there on the sub-scripts don't have to worry > about it. If this is being figured out in multiple places, I see that as a > problem too. This is also important to being able to move an installed copy of Sage. -- William > > - Robert > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.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
