On 11 June, 04:32, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 6/10/10 6:46 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > > > > Yes, it should, but it does not. I mentioned this on sage-solaris the > > other day, though of course very few people read that, so nobody replied > > >http://groups.google.com/group/sage-solaris/browse_thread/thread/5dcc... > > > (In fact, I've yet to have a single reply to anything I've posted no > > sage-solaris!) > > The archives link you give above shows lots of instances of people > replying to your posts.
Sorry, I did not notice. 2 is not very useful though to be honest. > I was just looking at the matplotlib dependency system today, so I'd be > interested in taking a look at the issue you raised to see if it's easy > to fix. Who is the admin to sage-solaris, so I can ask them to add my > email address? Can we add sage-solaris to gmane > (seehttp://gmane.org/subscribe.php)? > > Thanks, > > Jason I'm an admin of sage-solaris, so can add you. I'll do that shortly. But it looks like this problem is not specific to Solaris now, as the original poster was running Redhat Enterprise Linux. I have a similar issue (which may or may not be specific to Solaris), that python will not build the _hashlib module on one of my SPARCs if OpenSSL is installed in /usr/local/ssl. On various machines in the last week or two I've had to make some pretty drastic changes as root in order that Sage builds # chmod 000 /usr/local/lib/libpython2.6.a /usr/local/lib/python2.6 (on my Sun Ultra 27, so matplotlib can't find my python 2.6.5, which totally screws up the Sage build. Yet having python 2.4 in /usr/local on another system is not a problem). # chmod 000 /usr/local/ssl (so Sage can't find OpenSSL on an old machine of mine) # chmod 000 /usr/bin/pkg-config (To enable matplotlib to find the Sage version of freetype, though the old Sun one worked ok, so this was not an essential task. ) Clearly many packages are programmed to look in locations where software is commonly installed, such as /usr/local. In some cases, installations on the system get used in preference to the versions in Sage. In some cases that causes a problem. It would be good if we could find where this is happening in a systematic way. It's not obvious to me how one could best do that. 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
