On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, mabshoff wrote: > > Packages need to be configured with --prefix=$SAGE_ROOT/local, > > installed with DESTDIR=somewhere, and then somewhere/$SAGE_ROOT/local > > has to be renamed to $SAGE_ROOT/spkg/graft/packagename-v.er.si-on > > before graft (or whichever one) is called to put the links in place. > > I am more than sure that a lot of packages do not honor DESTDIR. Those > can be likely fixed. > > There is also a lot of code that does not use configure && make && > make install. How is that dealt with? What about python packages? Or > do you only want to deal with optional packages?
As Timothy Abbot and I can attest this is indeed the case. We have ways of dealing with all these in distributions so we are lucky I guess. Plus the solution shouldn't be linux/<insert favorite OS> centric. Francois --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
