On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 12:39:22 PM UTC, Erik Bray wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > We now have a good setup in place to make installation of an spkg > > conditional on presence of a compatible one > > on the system---basically, just add a dozen or two lines to configure.ac. > > > Examples of packages already treated this way are curl, yasm, git. gcc. > > > > Should there be an effort to do this for many more packages? (the 1st > > obvious candidate is patch). > > I have had an ongoing effort to use more system packages in a somewhat > "generic" way (see > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/nTwhCV89FXE/_7GdzGy4BgAJ) > > Although that thread is 6 months old, I have been working more or less > on the same plan I outlined there, but the work has been stalled on > what I felt was necessary preliminary work which I could use some help > moving forward in terms of review... (see [1] [2] [3]). > > That said, although I still consider proper package uninstallation an > important prerequisite to my bigger plans, that doesn't necessarily > prevent us from going ahead and making more spkgs conditional on > configure-time checks. > > One thing I might do differently from your proposal: I have some > experimental code for an autoconf macro that can slurp in macros from > multiple sub-directories. The idea being that you could put little > .m4 files in each build/pkgs/<pkgname> dir with configure-time checks > for that specific package, rather than cluttering up configure.ac with > them. Perhaps I could try putting together a ticket for that...? >
yes, please! it would be much more flexible this way. > > [1] https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22509 > [2] https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24106 > [3] https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22510 > -- 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.
