On 10/13/2009 08:36 PM, David Kirkby wrote: > 2009/10/13 Ralf Hemmecke <r...@hemmecke.de>: >> Would there be interest in the following workflow for installing sage. >> >> a) Get the sage tarball >> b) extract the tarbal to SOMEDIR >> c) cd SOMEDIR >> d) configure (with or without --prefix) >> e) make >> f) make install > > I would add > g) make test
> I must admit, I would prefer this, as it tends to be more common. Right. > But to write the configure.ac, which generates the Makefile, would be > quite a bit of work to get it right. Just generating the toplevel makefile (and perhaps sage-env) should be easy. But you probably also mean spkg/install and spkg/standard/deps. If these would be the only files (in a first round) that would be doable. Have I forgotten anything? > Most, if not all of the pre-req-0.4 thing I wrote recently would no > doubt then be moved to this top-level configure script if this was > done. What is pre-req-0.4? Anyway, it seems there is no interest from other sage developers in such a change or is there? And if yes, what would be the dream? Ralf --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
