On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK (20+ years experience with (lib)CDD ;-)) autotools support was donated
> to cdd many years ago, at 2001,
> and it predates Sage.
> I'm sure updates would be welcome.

Alright, thanks for the history.  I knew there were some pages that
Sage did autotoolize, and I wasn't sure whether or not this was one of
them.

I'll put together some patches to clean things up and send upstream :)

> On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 11:40:07 AM UTC, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 12:24:43 PM UTC+1, Erik Bray wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpf...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 12:17:08 PM UTC+1, Jean-Pierre Flori
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> We should definitely contact upstream if updating the autotools stuff
>>> >> there is needed.
>>> >
>>> > But do they ship autotools stuff or does it come from Sage?
>>> >
>>> > Old tickets:
>>> > * https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/13026
>>> > * https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15871
>>>
>>> That's what I was unclear about.  I saw those tickets and assumed that
>>> we had been messing with the autotools stuff, and wasn't sure if it
>>> was still maintained by its creator.  But the upstream source tarball
>>> contains the same autotools files so maybe we upstreamed that at some
>>> point, but it originated from Sage....?
>>>
>>> I don't know.  It doesn't say in the changelog.
>>
>> From what I see, the current situation is still a mess.
>> Yes upstream ships an autotool build system but we heavily patch it.
>> We should definitely exchange with them.
>>
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