On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Jonathan Bober <jwbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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.
There is: http://sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html#environment-variables I am all for moving that list to README.txt. It's often confused me that it wasn't there. -- william > > -- > 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 -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
