My question was is it possible to use external library when compiling sage. For example, openssl is located at /software for me and not in the usual location, /usr. And also, are there any plans to include open-ssl, tcl/tk into the source tree since they are core packages needed for Python.
On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:39:05 AM UTC-4, Jan Groenewald wrote: > > Hi Rita, > > On 14 August 2012 12:07, Rita Morgan <rmorg...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Thanks for the response. Is it possible to have sage make look at other >> locations for these libraries? Instead of looking at /usr/... can they look >> at /software/ ... Also, why wont they package these dependencies? > > > Sage is packaged as a standalone source tree. > > It is not really packaged for any distribution, only distributed as source > or binaries, > so does not include dependencies via the native package managers. The > documentation > is constantly being improved, distribution-specific sections could perhaps > be linked > to from here > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/binary.html#linux-and-os-x > and seach distritbutions' users could assist with a list of runtime > dependencies. > > I believe the exceptions are the ubuntu PPA on launchpad which allows > automatic updates and includes dependencies, and that gentoo and debian > are in progress with full native packages. > > Regards, > Jan > > -- > .~. > /V\ Jan Groenewald > /( )\ www.aims.ac.za > ^^-^^ > > -- -- 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
