Would it work just to create a temporary directory through the tempfile module?
El miércoles, 8 de junio de 2016, 6:38:34 (UTC+2), François escribió: > > > > On 8/06/2016, at 10:14, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Francois Bissey > > <francoi...@canterbury.ac.nz <javascript:>> wrote: > >> The version from the sage-on-gentoo overlay has been hacked to > explicitly > >> write data generated by the user in ~/.sympow. If indeed you make a > system > >> wide install where the user cannot write it will certainly fail. > > > > This is indeed exactly why it fails for me (silently from within sage > > and with a segfault from the command line). > > I examined what we have done in sage-on-gentoo. It appears that sympow > just dumps data in a “datafiles” folder where it is called from. > So Christopher wrapped the binary to cd to ~/.sympow first before calling > the > real executable. That would break on windows I am sure. > > I’ll open a ticket to get a similar fix in sage. > > François -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
