On 06/ 6/10 11:48 PM, François Bissey wrote:
yes singular is a downright mess, upstream and in sage.
I'm glad I'm not alone in my view.
Apart from moving to the latest upstream I think the singular spkg is due for a spring clean. It build an enormous amount of targets in a way that looks like a very careful choreography and apart from libsingular and the singular binary there is no indication sage uses any of the other stuff built.
It does take a long time to build compared to most other packages, which is probably due to the fact the package is large and so has a lot of source code.
If a lot of the targets are unnecessary, then I suspect the build time could be reduced. It took 40 minutes on my old 900 MHz SPARC, though I could probably reduce that if targets can be built in parallel. But even then, it is still going to be quite lengthy.
I have just read William's opinion and it may be true that is generally easy to build. But reproducing the set up used in the sage spkg from a packaging point of view is quite difficult.
Francois
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