On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Daniel Dvorkin <daniel.dvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 11, 2:27 pm, Bill Janssen <bill.jans...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It seems to me that if you're going to depend on a library that's >> installed in some non-standard place (I have no idea what would >> create /opt/local/lib) you should instead package it with and in the >> Sage tree. > > FWIW, /opt is created by MacPorts, one of the two main open-source > package managers for OS X (Fink, the other one, uses /sw.) It's > probably a reasonable bet that most Sage users have one or the other > of these installed, but I agree that it's a bad idea to depend on it.
I remember that for a while at least (evidently not now?) Sage would refuse to build if either MacPorts or Fink were installed. It would appear perhaps that whoever built that binary had MacPorts installed? Incidentally, I currently don't have either installed, and I use OS X a *lot*. -- william > > -- > 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 > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
