On Feb 22, 2011, at 11:44 , Jason Grout wrote: > On OSX, the path_helper command is always executed when starting a new shell. > Unfortunately, the path_helper command prepends standard system values to > the PATH variable, which means that the Sage-specific values come at the end > of the PATH variable. This causes all sorts of breakage when trying to use > sage -sh to do something. > > I'm on OSX 10.6.6. Can people try the following commands:
Me too... > bash-3.2$ sage -sh > Detected SAGE64 flag > Building Sage on OS X in 64-bit mode > > Starting subshell with Sage environment variables set. > Be sure to exit when you are done and do not do anything > with other copies of Sage! > > Bypassing shell configuration files ... > > SAGE_ROOT=/Users/grout/sage > (sage subshell) tiny:~/sage/local/bin grout$ echo $PATH > /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/grout/sage/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin:/Users/grout/sage:/Users/grout/sage/local/bin:. Here's what I see (I put an extra \n between lines, for readability): <justin@zippo:sage-4.6.2.rc0> ./sage -sh Starting subshell with Sage environment variables set. Be sure to exit when you are done and do not do anything with other copies of Sage! Bypassing shell configuration files ... SAGE_ROOT=/Users/Sage/sage-4.6.2.rc0 (sage subshell) zippo:sage-4.6.2.rc0 justin$ echo $PATH /Users/Sage/sage-4.6.2.rc0/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin:/Users/Sage/sage-4.6.2.rc0:/Users/Sage/sage-4.6.2.rc0/local/bin:.:/Users/justin/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin SAGE_ROOT=/Users/Sage/sage-4.6.2.rc0 (sage subshell) zippo:sage-4.6.2.rc0 justin$ I don't see what you see; perhaps one of us has sufficiently strange setup in our startup files to either mask or cause the problems. Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income -------- When LuteFisk is outlawed, Only outlaws will have LuteFisk -------- -- 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
