I've created #14381 to at least separate m4 from autotools stuff. On Thursday, December 20, 2012 5:27:57 PM UTC+1, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > > > On Saturday, October 6, 2012 11:56:06 PM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> Since we just got another report of #11391, I would like to propose >> again to add GNU m4 as standard package. The only possible argument >> against it would be that it makes the Sage source about 1MB larger... >> >> On 2012-06-19 14:34, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> > How do you guys feel about adding a GNU M4 package? MPIR requires M4, >> > also PPL with its C interface (see #12672) requires a recent version of >> > M4. This would add about 1.2 MB to the Sage source distribution. >> I'd be in favour of including M4 as well. >> > Moreover, now it's already distributed in the optional autotools spkg > (which is really useful for development). > > One might argue that all systems nowadays should have a decent m4 already, > as patch and iconv we ship as well. > But it does not seem to be the case that iconv is always decent (at least > on some Solaris, not sure about Cygwin today), and must have been for patch > (not sure today neither). > And are always these packages installed by default? > > Ideally, from my point of view, I would prefer to have a completely > modular Sage and just do "apt-get install sage" but I fear it won't happen > soon. > The only use case of a quasi selfcontained distrib is that someone without > root privileges but a decent gcc and perl installed can build Sage in a > user directory and shipping m4 will help that a little more. >
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