On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 8:47:13 PM UTC+2, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > > > On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 6:39:27 PM UTC+2, Emmanuel Charpentier > wrote: >> >> Bonus question for the build system experts : can an spkg-install script >> recursively call $SAGE_ROOT/sage -i <some other package> and get the return >> status back ? A simple solution would then be to test for the existence of >> the relevant binaries/executables in the R spkg-install script, and >> recursively install the (optional) relevant packages before proceeding to >> install R. >> >> What do you think ? >> >> I would say the good solution would be to mimick what is done for GCC. > Some calls to the autoconf macros here: > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/master/configure.ac#L393 > > Also have a look at what is done for the integer multi precision library: > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/master/configure.ac#L657 > > What is done for BLAS can also help. > > I don't have much time these days, but if you don't feel at ease enough > with autotools I can give it a try. >
There is also the need_to_install magic: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/master/configure.ac#L807 -- 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.
