On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 9:36:57 AM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2021, 17:30 Matthias Koeppe, <matthia...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You might recall that in 2020 I wrote the system-package recommendation >> scripts >> > > Your recommendations get routinely ignored, as they are recommendations, > and not laws - one can proceed to building, and ignore them. On the other > hand, if you try to build Sage without any C compiler on the PATH, you'll > be forced to install one, in no uncertain terms. >
Yes, as you know I implemented this already in https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/32060 ("configure: Change defaults to --with-system-gcc=force"), which is slated for inclusion in Sage 9.5. There is no need to put the axe to the Sage distribution just because we want issue more forceful recommendations. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/24a4706e-aa55-4dc4-aab8-2d1276a20e04n%40googlegroups.com.