#14465: Clean source.rst and include instructions for Cygwin
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Reporter: jpflori | Owner: mvngu
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.10
Component: documentation | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: Karl-Dieter Crisman
Authors: Jean-Pierre Flori | Merged in:
Dependencies: #14031 | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by leif):
[Still haven't applied the patch... ;-) -- some random remarks:]
Not sure how much you intended to change on this ticket, but IMHO the
overall structure is still suboptimal.
From what I've read, it e.g. sounds like building Sage's GCC was the
"standard" way (or recommended), and the main advantage of building Sage
from source was something like "full development capability", rather than
(potentially much) better performance and compatibility (w.r.t. to
available system libraries). Also, it is suggested to build in a
directory below `$HOME` (instead of some temporary directory on fast[er]
media and moving the Sage directory afterwards).
The information a sysadmin needs certainly differs from that of a less
experienced user; it doesn't seem the document currently reflects this.
[[BR]]
Regarding `CC` and `CXX` (to some extent `CFLAGS` etc. as well), the
warnings are rather confusing, and to my best knowledge obsolete. (On the
other hand, it is misleadingly emphasized that Sage would build with
almost any C compiler [assuming Sage's GCC gets built and used, but that
in contrast isn't that explicitly stated].)
It would IMHO be better to move the whole Sage Environment Variables
section somewhere else (of course still mentioning the relevant ones here,
and referring to their full description).
[[BR]]
There's no mention of `ccache`... ;-)
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