On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:27 PM Trevor Karn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I would be willing to help make improvements to the manual, my only
> hesitation is that I'm not 100% sure what is going on with the bootstrapping.
> Is there anything particular to bootstrapping in Sage that wouldn't show up
> in googling around about it?
./bootstrap is a shell script that calls autoconf and other autotools,
as well as sets up several other
things.
It would make sense if bootstrap also printed platform-specific system packages
(as listed in build/pkgs/_bootstrap/distros/<platform>.txt) it needs,
in case it fails and tells them to try "./bootstrap -d", - see the lines
echo >&2 "Bootstrap failed. Either $verb autotools or
run bootstrap with"
echo >&2 "the -d option to download the auto-generated
files instead."
in bootstrap.
It ought to be relatively straightforward (not sure about platform
recongition, this might be
a bit of work (probably copying from the right place in Sage's build/ ?)
Dima
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Trevor Karn
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 1:15 PM Matthias Koeppe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 9:09:32 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>> I see that the link I posted to the installation from source documentation
>>> doesn't mention autoconf/automake, but I would have thought some other
>>> package would have already installed them. Probably since homebrew is all
>>> bottles now they don't automatically get installed anymore if you are not
>>> building locally.
>>>
>>> But Dima is right, it's probably best practice to brew install the packages
>>> listed in the file build/pkgs/_bootstrap/distros/homebrew.txt.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> The installation manual does not mention the bootstrapping prerequisites
>> because users installing source releases will not need them.
>> Bootstrapping is only needed when developers use branches from git that make
>> changes to packages or build scripts.
>>
>> However the developer's manual should be updated to discuss bootstrapping.
>>
>> There is a ticket for improvements to this manual -
>> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29784 - which needs help.
>>
>>
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