Autotools is nicer for a lot of things. sage does patch to use libtools and I stayed away from that in Gentoo. The main advantage as far as I am concerned is that it makes it easier to produce shared libraries, correctly on a variety of platforms. Just for linux, and OS X, you don’t strictly need to do that but it is a good investment in the future.
In that regard the current sage solution is a bit of a halfway point. You really should couple it with automake and autoconf but that’s more work. But we should have pestered you about make/$(MAKE) a lot more as it is a much bigger sin ;) François > On 11/10/2016, at 13:03, Victor Shoup <sh...@cs.nyu.edu> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
