This singuname check does seem pretty horrible.
(A) making the makefiles do different things on windows/osx
(B) testing whether the system uses ELF
(C) a few old compatability checks
I'll upload a minimal fix that just sets the SINGUNAME to Unknown-Linux
for Linux versions that Singular doesn't understand for now, since I think
that will fix the build problems.
I'll also contact upstream about improving the situation to test for ELF
support and these other features directly in future releases.
Thanks for the report,
-Tim Abbott
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Riku Voipio wrote:
Package: singular
Version: 3-0-4-3.dfsg-1
Severity: important
build fails on many archs with:
checking uname for singular... unknown
configure: error: Unknown architecture: Check singuname.sh
This is completly broken and against the "test for features, not
for systems." philosophy of autoconf. Looking at where the "singuname"
result is used in configure.in, any generic modern linux system should
be sufficent to fill the requirements...
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