#12369: Add a gcc package
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: tbd
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: packages | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author: Jeroen Demeyer
Merged: | Dependencies: #11073, #10492, #12366, #12367,
#12368, #12405, #12416, #12422, #12423, #12425
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Comment(by rohana):
Replying to [comment:19 jhpalmieri]:
> I've been wondering for a while if we should change Sage to use
autoconf. (When I say "we", I don't actually mean me, since I don't know
anything about writing `configure` scripts, nor do I want to learn.) This
could replace spkg-install (especially with the modifications at #10492
that create a Makefile on the fly). Does this make sense as an
enhancement?
I don't know how much additional functionality it would add, but I would
argue for it since it is more unix user friendly than our current custom
setup (SAGE_ATLAS_LIB is not as user friendly as a fairly standard --with-
system-atlas argument for configure). My guess is that it would be a
fairly large endeavour to implement a first version of such a change (I
don't know autoconf, so I'm just guessing here), although it would
hopefully be easier to maintain than spkg-install.
> Should I poll sage-devel about it, and then open a ticket if the
response is positive?
I don't think it could hurt. Also, that would be a better place to discuss
it than on this ticket.
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