On Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:05:31 UTC, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2012-05-10 14:03, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > This is a huge overkill, at least on Linux, where gfortran is just one > > call to package manager away > If the user has root access, then yes. >
IMHO the top-level README.txt should be updated to reflect this. Currently (after #12898) it just says that Sage "automatically determines..." whether to build the gcc spkg, or not, without spelling out more details; at least it ought to mention that it will happen is gfortran is not installed. -- 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