[sage-devel] Why is the executable 'sympow' copied to local/lib/sympow?

2010-05-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
When on builds 'sympow', a directory $SAGE_LOCAL/lib/sympow is made, and the file 'sympow' executable copied there: drkir...@hawk:~/sage-4.4.2$ ./local/lib/sympow/sympow sympow 1.018 RELEASE (c) Mark Watkins --- see README and COPYING for details It seems a strange decision to copy an

Re: [sage-devel] Why is the executable 'sympow' copied to local/lib/sympow?

2010-05-25 Thread John Cremona
I agree! John On 25 May 2010 08:44, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: When on builds 'sympow', a directory  $SAGE_LOCAL/lib/sympow is made, and the file 'sympow' executable copied there: drkir...@hawk:~/sage-4.4.2$ ./local/lib/sympow/sympow sympow 1.018 RELEASE  (c) Mark

Re: [sage-devel] Why is the executable 'sympow' copied to local/lib/sympow?

2010-05-25 Thread François Bissey
When on builds 'sympow', a directory $SAGE_LOCAL/lib/sympow is made, and the file 'sympow' executable copied there: drkir...@hawk:~/sage-4.4.2$ ./local/lib/sympow/sympow sympow 1.018 RELEASE (c) Mark Watkins --- see README and COPYING for details It seems a strange decision to copy