Note that we almost have something like this already, the prereq tarball (in spkg/base) uses the autotools to check that various prerequisities for building Sage are satisifed.
PS: its configure.ac now, configure.in is deprecated ;-) -- 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