Could somebody please review this optional package? I think it's a useful improvement over the old autotools spkg.
On 2012-10-03 21:27, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > I have made a lot of fixes to my autotools spkg, essentially improving > it from a "proof of concept" to a "real" spkg. For this reason, I would > like to move the package from experimental to optional. > > The main change is that the package now ships an auto-generated Makefile > to build the various different versions of autotools, with correct > dependencies (e.g. autoconf-2.62 depends on automake-1.10). This made > the packaging process a lot more involved, but the spkg-install is much > simplified (it essentially just executes make). > > I added Texinfo to the package, since that's a prerequisite and it's > also often used for bootstrapping packages, so it fits with the theme. > > There are also a lot of small fixes to make the package more portable, > it no longer requires GNU-specific tools. Indeed, it now builds on all > buildbot systems that I tried (sage, rosemary, iras, bsd, moufang, mark, > hawk). > > Please review this *optional* package: > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13557 > > Thanks, > Jeroen. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
