On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> William Stein wrote: > >>> sage: An error occurred while installing database_cremona_ellcurve-20071019 >>> >>> I'm really surprised that this fails, given that it is just extracting >>> and copying over a directory -- nothing gets built. Maybe it is a >>> GNU-ism to copy, or a GNU-istic tarball? Could you try that one >>> directly? >> >> **************************************************** >> cp: illegal option -- v >> Usage: cp [-f] [-i] [-p] [...@] f1 f2 >> cp [-f] [-i] [-p] [...@] f1 ... fn d1 >> cp -r|-R [-H|-L|-P] [-f] [-i] [-p] [...@] d1 ... dn-1 dn >> >> real 0m0.029s >> user 0m0.006s >> sys 0m0.019s >> sage: An error occurred while installing database_cremona_ellcurve-20071019 >> >> That's a GNUism - see >> >> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cp.html >> >> there is no -v option for 'cp' in POSIX. That should be easy to fix. > > Do you want me to create a trac ticket for this and fix it?
Yes, please do. Thanks!! > The fix is trivial, > as the -v option on GNU's 'cp' is just: > > -v, --verbose > explain what is being done > > I do not see optional packages as high on the priority list for Solaris (more > fundamental issues that stop it building if Sun Studio is installed, or > prevent > the binary being created) are higher priority, but this is such a trivial fix, > it might as well be done. > > > > Dave > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
