#13357: Create an experimental autotools spkg
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.3
Component: experimental package | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
Authors: Jeroen Demeyer | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Old description:
> '''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.
New description:
'''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 git repository of autoconf, automake and libtool.
For the latter 3 packages (commonly referred to as "autotools"),
many different versions are installed, by checking out the versions
from the git repo and building/installing them separately. Since the
complete git repository is shipped in the spkg, this does not require
internet access.
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 GNU m4.
The package makes wrapper scripts in $SAGE_LOCAL/bin for the various
autotools, which call the "correct" version. This means that, if a file
"configure" already exists in the current directory, the same autoconf
version is run which created the original file. Otherwise, the latest
version is run. The goal of all this is to make it easier to patch
configure.ac or Makefile.am files inside a spkg. By using the same
version of autotools as originally used, the patch files should be
relatively small.
== 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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Comment (by jdemeyer):
I updated the description (both in `SPKG.txt` and in the ticket). Is it
more clear now what the package does?
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