On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:23:19 -0800 (PST) John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Various aspects of building Sage might be cleaner if we used autoconf: > > ./configure OPTIONS > make > > OPTIONS could include a location to install Sage, various flags for > building ATLAS, and other options which we currently control by > setting environment variables. For typical users, we should aim for > > ./configure > make > > to work. We should also continue to use the current environment > variables--no need to remove them, just provide another way of > setting them. Should we vote? > > [ ] Switch to autoconf > [ ] Keep the current build system There was a similar discussion earlier: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/t/b2ece135b42b5d98 The SEP Ralf wrote is also mentioned in that thread: http://wiki.sagemath.org/AutoToolsSEP IMHO, moving the checks from prereq to a top level configure file makes sense. I used a waf script to handle this in lmonade: https://bitbucket.org/burcin/lmnd-prefix/src/tip/scripts/wscript Cheers, Burcin -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
