On Sep 6, 4:02 pm, "Arnaud Bergeron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/9/6 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> > On Sep 6, 12:02 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Dear Arnaud,
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> > Hi,
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> >> This is really a sage building issue so should be taken to
> >> sage-support or sage-devel.
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> >> As it happens I think that the change you suggest is already part of
> >> one of the patches athttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3358
> >> (the *ungnu* one), so if you want to get this change incorporated, the
> >> best thing to do would be to review all that patch.
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> > I am not a fan of the patch since it removes the possibility to build
> > eclib without certain options. We require gnu make for freetype
> > anyway, so building Sage without it is not possible.
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> How about ungnu-ing this one too. I'm not saying I'll do it, but if
> it was done, would it be considered?
There is a version in BSD's portage that is de-gnuified, but I never
looked closely. I am not sure if we should change to use it, but as is
freetype is not changing much, so I would definitely consider it.
> > Changing the occurances from make to ${MAKE} is something I would
> > support, but in the end the benefit from it will be negligible.
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> It will allow building Sage on systems where gnu make is not the
> native one without having to rename gmake to make and place it before
> make in the path. That way it would be possible tu use gmake by just
> typing 'gmake' instead of 'make' on BSD systems. Of course, if Sage
> never intends to go that way, then there is no benefit.
Well, it would clearly be a good thing to fix those issues. For now
when I work on Sage on FreeBSD or Solaris I just drop a renamed
gnumake into my toolchain directory. But any work on de-gnuing Sage's
components is certainly appreciated and will be merged.
Cheers,
Michael
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