You're right, plus I was confusing "./bootstrap -d" (which is run by "make configure") with "./bootstrap -D" which forces the download.
On Monday, February 19, 2024 at 3:17:11 PM UTC-8 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > On Monday, February 19, 2024 at 3:09:55 PM UTC-8 John H Palmieri wrote: > > By the way, I just cloned the Sage repo and ran "make configure", which > runs `./bootstrap`. The upstream directory is empty after that. > > > You probably have autoconf/automake/... installed. In this case, it just > uses them to build the configure script. Downloading is a fallback that is > used when these "bootstrapping prerequisites" are not installed. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/ed16aa03-8b75-4dd1-bf74-567882d16646n%40googlegroups.com.
