#13357: Create an experimental autotools spkg
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.3
Component: experimental package | Keywords:
Work issues: | Report Upstream: N/A
Reviewers: | Authors: Jeroen Demeyer
Merged in: | Dependencies:
Stopgaps: |
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'''spkg''':
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/autotools-20120810.spkg
= autotools =
== Description ==
This package contains a recent version of GNU m4 and help2man.
It contains the full git repository of autoconf, automake and libtool.
For the latter 3 packages (commonly referred to as "autotools"),
several different versions are installed. Then wrapper scripts are made
in $SAGE_LOCAL/bin which call the "correct" version. This means that,
if a file "configure" already exists, the same autoconf version is run
which created the original file.
For m4 and help2man, just one version is installed. This is because
they are prerequisites for autotools. Even though m4 is already a
prerequisite of Sage, autoconf requires an up-to-date version of m4.
== License ==
GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
== SPKG Maintainers ==
* Jeroen Demeyer
== Upstream Contact ==
* http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
* http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/
* http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
* http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
* http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
== Dependencies ==
* GNU coreutils
* Perl
* Git
== Special !Update/Build Instructions ==
This package has only been tested on GNU/Linux systems and will likely
fail to build on other systems. Since this package is only intended for
package developers, that should not be a big problem.
The file spkg-src can be used to automatically create or update the git
repositories.
== Changelog ==
=== autotools-20120810 (Jeroen Demeyer, 10 August 2012) ===
* Initial release, contains m4-1.4.16, help2man-1.40.11 and git
sources for autoconf, automake and libtool.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13357>
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