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I just built a Sage system. What files may I delete with impunity?

asked 2019-08-02 21:03:57 +0100

dyne2meter gravatar image

updated 2019-08-02 21:18:36 +0100

I have just built Sage 7.6 on an Apple iMac 8,1 running OS X version 10.11.6. I started with a download of a compressed source distribution from the Sage github repository (without cloning the repository itself, since I don't plan to contribute any development ideas or comments for awhile). Doctesting went very well, with only two failed tests out of the entire suite:

sage -t src/sage/doctest/test.py  # 1 doctest failed
sage -t src/sage/modules/vector_rational_dense.pyx  # 1 doctest failed

I also downloaded the equivalent binary distribution and doctested that, obtaining these results:

sage -t src/sage/calculus/calculus.py  # 1 doctest failed
sage -t src/sage/doctest/test.py  # 1 doctest failed
sage -t src/sage/graphs/digraph_generators.py  # 3 doctests failed
sage -t src/sage/graphs/graph_generators.py  # 5 doctests failed
sage -t src/sage/graphs/hypergraph_generators.py  # 7 doctests failed
sage -t src/sage/modules/vector_rational_dense.pyx  # 1 doctest failed
sage -t src/sage/tests/cmdline.py  # Timed out after testing finished

I did expect my own build to do better, but the installation I ended up with is fully 2 GB larger than what came in the binary distribution. Much (more than 1/3) of the overage is in a directory

../sage-7.6/local/share/doc/sage/doctrees

which is not present in the binary distribution, and I assume it is only of interest to developers. Is that correct? I will trim my build by also removing two large files

../sage-7.6/src/build/temp.macosx.10.9...
../sage-7.6/src/build/lib.macosx.10.9...

but keep my log and upstream files in case I want to review the build or look at the sources. All this is pending any further advice I get in the next few days about files that are generally only of interest to developers.

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Why version 7.6? That's pretty old. Did more recent versions fail for you?

John Palmieri gravatar imageJohn Palmieri ( 2019-08-02 21:25:56 +0100 )edit

Thanks for your replies! I see that in the binary downloads there is an 8.6 release that is listed for my system, Mac OS X 10.11. That would give me the benefit of subsequent bug fixes.

I must agree that sage-7.6 is an old release, but my hardware is much, much older! I will give it a try on the 8.6 build after I begin to learn something substantive about using Sage -- intro linear algebra is my current study. I will certainly report back, here, if I experience problems beyond doc testing.

I'm inclined immediately to accept your answer, given below. Am I the only one who can do that?

dyne2meter gravatar imagedyne2meter ( 2019-08-02 21:44:48 +0100 )edit

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answered 2019-08-02 21:25:30 +0100

make clean and make misc-clean are safe, although the second of these will remove log files. make micro_release should also be safe, although it will remove all of the built documentation. Removing everything in local/share/doc/sage/ except for html and (if present) pdf should be safe. Removing upstream will still allow Sage to run, but you would then need to download a lot of tar files if you ever wanted to rebuild it.

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