On Fri, 2023-11-17 at 17:26 +0000, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > Why can't Features be set up by ./configure ? You'll tell me that > (some) distributions don't run ./configure, but this is beside the > point. > They have ways to know what's installed and what's not installed. >
I think the problem is that ./configure is in the wrong place. Sagelib needs its own build system that can detect libraries, run tests, and determine paths, so that things still work when we build only sagelib. That's one of the reason's I'm so happy that Tobias is working on the meson build. In theory it would let us eliminate most of the top-level ./configure, sage-conf, and all of the runtime feature testing -- to be replaced with something simple, predictable, and standard. -- 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/d943b9c6a37d63df0b356448d027c421dc081a2b.camel%40orlitzky.com.
