Set the environment variable SAGE_TESTDIR to control this location. The school IT staff pointed me the right direction. :-)
- Ryan On Sep 2, 2:50 pm, Ryan Hinton <iob...@email.com> wrote: > I am working with our school IT staff to install Sage. I compiled it > in a temporary location, they copied it to an "official" location (and > ran it once to regenerate path-dependencies), and now I'm trying to > run the doctests. But I get failures like the following because I > don't have write-access to the installed location. > > $ ./sage -t devel/sage/sage/algebras/algebra.py > sage -t "devel/sage/sage/algebras/algebra.py" > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/share/apps/contrib/sage-4.1/local/bin/sage-doctest", line > 754, in <module> > test_file(argv[1], library_code = library_code) > File "/share/apps/contrib/sage-4.1/local/bin/sage-doctest", line > 587, in test_file > open(f,"w").write(s) > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: './.doctest_algebra.py' > [0.2 s] > exit code: 256 > > When my CWD is in my home directory (i.e. I have write access), it > tries to write the doctest files to '.../sage-4.1/ > tmp/.doctest_algebra.py'. > > So the question: how can I skip writing these files, or specify what > location these files should be created? > > Thanks! > > - Ryan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
