[sage-devel] 'set -e' used inappropriately in python-2.6.2.p4

2009-12-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
The following problem, which is ticket http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7645 is one more example of where trying to build Sage on an uncommon platform (HP-UX) discovers bugs which affect *all* platforms. This is yet one more justification of why it is desirable to write POSIX compati

[sage-devel] "set -e"

2009-10-04 Thread William Stein
Hi, I just noticed that David Kirkby encouraged us to put "set -e"'s in the Sage spkg-install's, and at the time when I was barely paying attention it seemed like a good idea. So I was just refereeing 6990 and noticed that the spkg-install's are now full of code like this: -