On Tue, 3 May 2011 20:07:39 -0700 (PDT) François <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> On May 4, 7:58 am, Maarten Derickx <m.derickx.stud...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On May 3, 7:23 pm, Burcin Erocal <bur...@erocal.org> wrote: > > > > > IIRC, there were messages on this list about having python as a > > > dependency already. What are the dependencies of Sage besides > > > tar, gcc and gfortran? Does Sage depend on bash? > > > > It definitly depends on bash, there are a lot of bash scripts it > > uses (even for starting sage). To get an idea of which scripts all > > use bash do for example. > > > > grep -r $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin bash > > I think we were discussing python as a dependency when talking about > including > patch. There was some motion to use hg instead but that introduced > circular > dependencies on python. To find out what's really needed apart from > bash > we have to look at prereq and what it is checking for. > config.ac in prereq is checking for compilers (c,c++ and fortran), > YACC and LEX (or functional equivalents), ar, m4, ranlib, ld, > perl-5.8.0+ (for building R). > A lot of these will be brought in by the prefix unless we require them > and > put them in package.provided. I didn't know perl was a requirement. Anybody want to add to this? :) I think they should be in package.provided to keep in line with Sage. Does anyone have trouble installing these on their system before Sage? I suppose this is not the right place to ask this question, since most developers would have gone past that step long ago. :) The python dependency also came up when discussing its use in spkg-install scripts, for example in ATLAS. ATM, ATLAS spkg depends on the Python spkg for this reason. Cheers, Burcin -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
