On Dec 29, 2009, at 5:07 AM, Nathann Cohen wrote: > Well, after taking a look at file modules_list, would it be so bad if > we were just adding at the end of the definition of this huge list : > > if ( the correct library is installed ): > ext_modules.append( whatever you want) > > The problem just comes from the fact that this file is a very long > list, and that we can not have conditions inside of this list, but > that's all we need, isn't it ?
That's what I was about to suggest. There's also a command to see if an spkg is installed too which you can use. I actually think this is better than the graceful failure idea, because then if you have the library and it still fails to build, you get the error you want. - Robert -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
