Nils,
This is a horrible problem, but fortunately there is an easy fix:
0. cd SAGE_ROOT
1. ./sage -f sage_scripts-2.1.4
2. rm local/lib/sage-current-location.txt
3. ./sage (then exit)
4. ./sage -upgrade
William
On 2/20/07, Nils Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> when trying to upgrade to the new linbox-20070219, I get the following
> error:
>
> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/local/sage/current/local/
> sage/default/local/sage/sage-2.1.2/local/lib/libgmp.la'
>
> my sage-location is identical to the one William attached to an
> earlier message.
>
> Originally, the tree was located at /usr/local/sage/sage-2.1.2. This
> directory was renamed to
>
> /usr/local/sage/current
>
> and there is a symbolic link /usr/local/sage/default that points to /
> usr/local/sage/current.
>
> The file it is looking for would be located at /usr/local/sage/current/
> local/lib/libgmp.la or /usr/local/sage/default/local/lib/libgmp.la
>
> My guess is that, upon relocation, the "/usr" from the original /usr/
> local/sage/sage-2.1.2/local/lib/libgmp.la got replaced by the
> relocated root "/usr/local/sage/default"
>
> After running sage using /usr/local/sage/current/sage, a "relocation"
> was detected and the now "/usr" got replaced by the now current root "/
> usr/local/sage/current/" etc. A little experimentation shows I can
> make the pathname arbitrarily long in this way.
>
> I think I see what is the culprit: in sage-location, in
> update_library_files, there is a
>
> i = z.find('local/')
>
> which hopes to find the local in front of lib, but in this example it
> finds the local just after usr. This indeed explains the current
> behaviour.
>
> I'm afraid you'll have to look for the *last* occurrence of "local",
> not the *first*
> (that, or instruct people to not install sage anywhere under /usr/
> local/, but that seems a bit harsh)
>
>
> >
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
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