First, you are definitely wrong about punch cards. I started programming with Fortran on punch cards in the 70s.
Second, a complete transition to auto tools still feels like overkill at this point. But I agree that it could come one day. In any case, I am almost done with all the requested changes. I will follow up with a couple of quick questions, though. On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 5:09:48 PM UTC-4, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 9:09:38 PM UTC+1, François wrote: >> >> On 11/10/16 01:58, Victor Shoup wrote: >> > Another issue. I'm not sure if $(MAKE) is specific to gnu make or if it >> is universal. >> > In general, I don't want to assume gnu. But I can certainly make this >> the default, >> > and provide a config variable to override. >> >> I'll have another go at this when you use >> $(MAKE) inside a makefile you are making sure >> that the make command used is the same one that >> you called on the initial makefile. >> >> As other people mentioned it enable parallel make >> to proceed nicely, and in the case where there is >> several make command installed on the system >> you avoid funny things happening. I have AIX >> system which comes with its own posix make >> command. Something like ntl probably require >> gmake (GNU make), calling AIX make in the >> middle is not a good idea. >> >> > Perhaps the most natural solution would be to change NTL build system so > that > it uses the standard autotools chain (autoconf/automake etc), not only > libtool. > Given that it uses very few external libraries, it ought to be an easy > task. > > Given that I am perhaps the only person in this thread who learned to > program using punch cards, > I am a dinosaur from an earlier period, yet, I look into the future :-) > > Dima > > > > Francois >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
