On Sat, 9 Dec 2023 at 01:55, Waldek Hebisch <de...@fricas.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 01:55:34AM +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > > BTW: When installing Aldor in the wiki I updated: > > > > > > http://wiki.fricas.org/AldorForFriCAS > > > > > > so that it contains info needed to install Aldor on wiki machine. > > > In particular I did not see _working_ instructions for building > > > Aldor itself in single place (there were hints in emails from > > > Peter). > > > > Oh, up to now I thought that Aldor build instructions is something that the > > Aldor project is responsible for. > > Well, it should be done by Aldor folks. But to build Aldor > interface one needs to get (that is build) Aldor first and at > least for wiki the simplest way was to add instructions to > page above. >
> > But I agree, the need for "--disable-maintainer-mode" should be more> > > > prominent in the Aldor build instructions or rather should be the default. > > There seems to be a problem with the standard way. > > > > [git checkout...] > > cd $ALDOR/aldor > > ./autogen.sh > > cd $BUILDDIR > > $ALDOR/aldor/configure > > make -j8 > > > > gives > > > > libtool: Version mismatch error. This is libtool 2.4.7 Debian-2.4.7-4, but > > the > > libtool: definition of this LT_INIT comes from libtool 2.4.6. > > libtool: You should recreate aclocal.m4 with macros from libtool 2.4.7 > > Debian-2.4.7-4 > > libtool: and run autoconf again. > > > > Maybe autogen.sh must be updated to regenerate everything properly for the > > standard --enable-maintainer-mode. > > AFAIK in maintainer mode autotools do not tolerate any version > differences: maintainers are supposed to use exactly the same > autotools version. I mean that upgrade/downgrade may require > modifying code which should be trivial for person familiar > with build system, that is maintainer. But in practice IIUC projects > with complicated build systems tend to stay with single version > and then there is real work to upgrade. I affraid that having > users to deal with maintainer mode is too problematic. > I think the reference to 'Aldor folks' above is optimistic - I'd like to get a few more people helping with development (this is an optimistic plea for interested parties, to get involved btw). Anyway, I hadn't noted the impact of maintainer mode. If it's easier to work without it, then it's not a problem to drop it from the github configure.ac Peter Peter > -- > Waldek Hebisch > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/ZXPJDyEqIn8y7BVL%40fricas.org. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAK%3DmBN8KoYPWdGpvrGBYmV1uUpQHeq13U0A64ZgJ6hGPqs%3D0Hw%40mail.gmail.com.
