Various aspects of building Sage might be cleaner if we used autoconf: ./configure OPTIONS make
OPTIONS could include a location to install Sage, various flags for building ATLAS, and other options which we currently control by setting environment variables. For typical users, we should aim for ./configure make to work. We should also continue to use the current environment variables--no need to remove them, just provide another way of setting them. Should we vote? [ ] Switch to autoconf [ ] Keep the current build system (Note that I'm not volunteering to implement this; I know nothing about writing configure.in scripts, and I don't want to learn...) -- John -- 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
