Lots of packages in Sage make use of a program called 'install'. If you build Sage on Solaris, you might well have noticed warnings about 'install' not supporting a specific option.
There are a few issues with 'install' * On Solaris, the only one is in /usr/sbin, which is where normally only root has their path set to. There is no 'install' file in the normal directories used by a user. (I must admit, I keep /usr/sbin in my path, even when logged is a normal user). * On Solaris, the 'install' program is not the GNU one, and appears to ignore an option which might be significant. I can't say I am aware of it being so, but I don't know. It * On HP-UX there is no such command. So it seems we need to have an installer. I thought this was a simple shell script, but checking on sage.math I see it is a binary. But if I recall correct, there was one strange package which had about 8 copies of 'install' in various different directories. I realise this is in /usr/bin on Linux, but it is not on other operating systems. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
