On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:00 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > After following this whole thread, I still have absolutely no idea > what this "non-trivial project" even is. What functionality is being > proposed to add to the Sage build system? > > -- William > > > I have been wondering the same thing. Some thoughts: First off, I would like to note that, even though it is a really trivial thing, I really like that I can build all of Sage just by typing 'make'. I have always thought it silly that I should have to type './configure' before typing make for so many programs. I mean, I understand the point of it, but why can't 'make' do whatever it is './configure' would do. Now, as far as Sage goes, I actually never just type 'make', which weakens my point above. I always do something like export SAGE_PARALLEL_SPKG_BUILD='yes' export MAKE='make -j8' make (do I still need to do those things?) I would probably like to add some sort of atlas environment variable to that list, to try to have atlas build in less than 2 hours, but I can never remember what that variable is and what it should be set to. So, I interpreted the original proposal as something along the lines as "It would be nice if there were a simple script which I could run, which set these environment variables for me, or did something which had the same effect." Maybe if there were just a complete easy to read list of environment variable which effect the build in the README.txt file, that would be enough. -- 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
