On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:45:55 Peter Jeremy wrote: > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >make[4]: Entering directory > >`/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.2/spkg/build/singular-3-1-0-4-20090818.p1/sr > >c/factory' WARNING: You need to rerun autoconf. I am proceeding, for now. > > I also found it necessary to install autoconf - one of my patches > explicitly patches the .ac file for singular because the supplied > configure script is too broken to correct directly. What is the > policy here? Should autoconf be run before the spkg is created so > that autoconf isn't needed at build time? > I am under the assumption that we don't want to depend on autoconf. It would bring its own problem like which version works and a lot of other headaches. I know I have submitted some stuff with a regenerated config script, that's unfortunately very big patches :( The point of autoconf is that you don't need the end user of the build system to have it installed. I think it has already been talked to death in the past.
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