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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.