Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > 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?
I think creating the spkg-installs would not be doable without an effort which far exceeds any gainst. >> 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? Sorry, my mistake. It is 'prereq-0.4'. It is code which does the preliminary checks of the Sage build. It ensures the build environment is sane, using supported tools etc. Such as: * Your version of gcc is not too old or too buggy. * You get a warning if using non-GNU compilers. * You get a warning on any non-supported platform. Read more about my changes to it at: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7021 I've noticed a couple of bugs with it, neither of which are too serious and neither of which are any worst than the previous behaviour - just not as good as I would have liked. In all honestly, I think any attempt to replace the top level makefile with a configure script will be more effort than it is worth. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
