On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:47:48AM +0200, Julien Puydt wrote: > Le 11/06/2013 11:33, Volker Braun a écrit : > >I'd say archiving the symlink is exactly what you'd want. If you use > >system libraries for compiling Sage then they become dependencies of the > >binary distribution, obviously. > > What would break if they were copied instead of linked?
a binary dist is supposed to work on a machine that looks the same as the one it was compiled on, hence the symlink is fine. thats why you should always use *source* distributions that ship a sane build system instead. > The current answers look more like the usual "No, because it's > different from what we do now!" than like a technical discussion... not this time, i think :D regards felix -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
