#13557: Improve the autotools spkg
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.5
Component: optional packages | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
Authors: Jeroen Demeyer | Merged in:
Dependencies: recommended: #12707 | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by jdemeyer):
Replying to [comment:8 jpflori]:
> If I undersand correctly after just looking at the diff from the
previous version, you now use spkg-write-makefile to generate
Makefile.build which is later used to build autotools et al. and requires
Sage with autotools, whence the impossibility to generate it on the fly.
Exactly right. You need `autoconf` to properly determine which `autoconf`
version is needed to parse a given `configure.ac` file. So paradoxically,
the package needs itself to be installed in order to repackage it.
> But, is there really no reason to track it in the Mercurial tree?
It's autogenerated, so I guess we shouldn't track it.
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