Re: [sage-devel] SAGE_ATLAS_LIB and sage -bdist

2013-06-11 Thread Volker Braun
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:47:48 AM UTC+1, Snark wrote: > What would break if they were copied instead of linked? > Probably not in the case of ATLAS since that library is pretty self-contained. You might ask in general why do we compile libraries instead of copying them from the build hos

Re: [sage-devel] SAGE_ATLAS_LIB and sage -bdist

2013-06-11 Thread Felix Salfelder
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. > > Wha

Re: [sage-devel] SAGE_ATLAS_LIB and sage -bdist

2013-06-11 Thread Julien Puydt
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? The current answers

Re: [sage-devel] SAGE_ATLAS_LIB and sage -bdist

2013-06-11 Thread Volker Braun
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. On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:08:20 AM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 06/11/2013 09:43 AM, Julien Puydt wrote: > > H

Re: [sage-devel] SAGE_ATLAS_LIB and sage -bdist

2013-06-11 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 06/11/2013 09:43 AM, Julien Puydt wrote: Hi, shouldn't the atlas spkg copy the static library instead of linking them, in order for sage -bdist to produce a working archive? Can't we just declare SAGE_ATLAS_LIB to be fundamentally incompatible with making a bdist? -- You received this mess

[sage-devel] SAGE_ATLAS_LIB and sage -bdist

2013-06-11 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, shouldn't the atlas spkg copy the static library instead of linking them, in order for sage -bdist to produce a working archive? With the current situation, sage -bdist will archive a symlink, which might not (hence will not -- it's not pessimism if it's true...) be available on a target