Trying to create a binary distribution on Solaris, I find some rather suspicious looking files are being added:
sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/symmetrica/ sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/symmetrica/symmetrica.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/mpmath/ sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/mpmath/utils.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/cremona/ sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/cremona/homspace.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/cremona/mat.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/cremona/newforms.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_GF2.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_GF2E.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_GF2EContext.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_GF2EX.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_GF2X.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_lzz_p.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_lzz_pContext.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_lzz_pX.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_mat_GF2.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_mat_GF2E.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_mat_ZZ.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_ZZ.o sage-4.2.1-Solaris-10-sun4u-SunOS/devel/sage-main/build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_ZZX.o There can not be any need for object files can there? I've no idea where the directory temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6 comes from. This could explain why the binary is much larger than William expected. (The .tar.gz file is 729 MB in size, though I had to copy two gcc libraries that you would not need to do on linux). I would add, this was upgraded from 4.2 to 4.2.1. Would this temp directory have been created then? I'm puzzled how it got there, but it seems wrong to me to be copying over a huge number of .o (object) files. Dave -- 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