On Dec 10, 10:10 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The people who downloaded binaries recently will -- if they do not
> give up instantly -- go stratight to the Sage homepage for help, so
> there should be a clear item there explaining what to do to upgrade.
> With luck this will leave some of them with a good feeling, that
> although there was a big it was fixed instantly -- but it needs to be
> easy to find and obvious to know what to do.
>
> John
I agree. We should also add some way to test this automatically. Two
[none-exclusive] options come to mind:
* install sage, move it to a random directory name, run a script with
known input that tests all [or at least many] executables in tree
* install sage and run a script for hard links and also files with
potential permission issues. Paul opened a ticket about the permission
issue a while ago and while I did fix some of them there are still
issues there.
Cheers,
Michael
>
> On 10/12/2007, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > There are a few very serious (but easy to fix)
> > problems with the current sage and upcoming packages
> > that involving hardcoding of paths. These
> > will cause problems if you move a sage install.
>
> > POLYBORI:
> > I noticed this in a SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/:
>
> > lrwxr-xr-x 1 was was 47 Dec 4 10:52 ipbori ->
> > /Users/was/s/local/share/polybori/ipbori/ipbori
>
> > That link *must* not be hard coded. Make sure this gets fixed before
> > polybori is in sage.
>
> > SINGULAR (very serious):
> > Several Singular-related files in SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/ have hardcoded
> > paths.
> > This makes it so singular will fail to work for everybody who
> > downloads a sage
> > binary right now :-(.
>
> > The package singular-3-0-4-1-20071209.spkg fixes the problem. Just do
> > sage -upgrade to get it, or download it from
> > http://sagemath.org/packages/standard/singular-3-0-4-1-20071209.spkg
>
> > BZIP2:
> > Some minor path hardcoding problems. Easy to fix. I've put the
> > file that needs
> > to be replaced here:
>
> > I've attached the file to fix this here:
> > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1444
>
> > --
> > William Stein
> > Associate Professor of Mathematics
> > University of Washington
> >http://wstein.org
>
> --
> John Cremona
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