On Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 3:43:47 PM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote:
>
> On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 12:24:27 AM UTC+1, John H Palmieri wrote:
>>
>> Should the model when building from scratch be
>> ./configure --prefix=/target/location
>> make
>> make install
>>
>
> This basically doesn't work if you compile your own dependencies; You have 
> to "make install" you dependencies before you can use them in later stages 
> of "make".
>

I guess that I'm asking whether "make install" should just copy the 
appropriate parts and then run the relocation script. That is, we have a 
way of installing Sage, so why not make it a make target?
 

>
> It can work for sage-the-library only, and we should aim for that 
> eventually. 
>
> For sage-the-distribution not so much. There is a long list of desirable 
> things that our current build system can't do: No reliable incremental 
> builds, no modular binary packages, ... One possibility would be to use 
> hashdist for our source builds and extend it to produce conda-compatible 
> binary packages (as Aron proposed before) for private $HOME installs. And 
> publish our own rpm/debs for system-wide installation, possibly using 
> distro packages for dependencies when possible.
>

Same question here.

-- 
John
 

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