David,
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:15 PM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
>
> If you look on the thread
>
> " Do we need "cp -a" - or would 'cp -pR' do ?"
>
> you may have noticed that Gonzalo Tornaria has discovered that
> "local/bin/python" is a hardlink to "local/bin/python2.6". From what I
> understand, this is the only hard link in Sage. It would be better if
> this could be replaced by a symbolic link.
you missed my answer in the other thread:
> I would have thought so too. But I'm puzzled, as python-2.6.2.p4/spkg-install
> creates a symbolic link. It has the line:
>
> ln -s python2.6 python
This is actually creating a local/lib/python symlink to local/lib/python2.6.
It seems to me the line at fault is in file
python-2.6.2.p4/src/Makefile.pre.in, line 763:
(cd $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR); $(LN) python$(VERSION)$(EXE) $(PYTHON))
an "-s" option to that could make a difference, I think. (I didn't try it)
Gonzalo
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