On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> I've just created an spkg-check file for pynac, so it runs the test suite.
> But if it does check anything, it is not exactly making it clear what it is
> checking. I'm left wondering what, if anything is tested. Whatever is tested
> takes next to no time to test, so it does not look like its a very extensive
> test suite.
>
>
> Done installing pynac.
>
> real    0m40.374s
> user    0m34.001s
> sys     0m4.877s
> Successfully installed pynac-0.2.0.p4
> Running the test suite.
> Testing a 64-bit version of pynac
> Making check in ginac
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.5.alpha0/spkg/build/pynac-0.2.0.p4/src/ginac'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.5.alpha0/spkg/build/pynac-0.2.0.p4/src/ginac'
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.5.alpha0/spkg/build/pynac-0.2.0.p4/src'
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.5.alpha0/spkg/build/pynac-0.2.0.p4/src'
> Now cleaning up tmp files.
> rm: Cannot remove any directory in the path of the current working directory
> /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.5.alpha0/spkg/build/pynac-0.2.0.p4
> Making Sage/Python scripts relocatable...
> Making script relocatable
> Finished installing pynac-0.2.0.p4.spkg
>
>
> Not very convincing is it?

It makes absolutely no sense to run a "make check" for pynac, since
pynac can't do anything without the Sage library already built.  The
only conceivable test suite for pynac is the Sage library's test
suite.

 -- William

>
>
>
> PS, as reported at
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7861
>
> pynac was not building 64-bit on OpenSolaris. I've managed to find a
> workaround (aka hack) for this. I think the package needs a bit of work to
> be honest, as its use of libtool is just not working right. But I've managed
> to get it to build by forcing it to look in for the gcc libraries in the
> place where the 64-bit ones are. libtool should handle all this
> automatically, but something is wrong with how pynac is using libtool I
> think.
>
> Dave
>
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-- 
William Stein
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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