Anyway, like I said, I'm pretty much done, modulo a couple of things that I asked about two posts above. Hopefully, someone can clarify those points soon, and then there will be a distribution of NTL that does not require any patching :-)
On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 8:16:17 PM UTC-4, François wrote: > > Autotools is nicer for a lot of things. sage does patch > to use libtools and I stayed away from that in Gentoo. > The main advantage as far as I am concerned is that it makes > it easier to produce shared libraries, correctly on a variety > of platforms. Just for linux, and OS X, you don’t strictly > need to do that but it is a good investment in the future. > > In that regard the current sage solution is a bit of a halfway point. > You really should couple it with automake and autoconf but that’s > more work. > > But we should have pestered you about make/$(MAKE) a lot more > as it is a much bigger sin ;) > > François > > > On 11/10/2016, at 13:03, Victor Shoup <sh...@cs.nyu.edu <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > First, you are definitely wrong about punch cards. I started programming > > with Fortran on punch cards in the 70s. > > > > Second, a complete transition to auto tools still feels like overkill at > this point. > > But I agree that it could come one day. > > In any case, I am almost done with all the requested changes. > > I will follow up with a couple of quick questions, though. > > > > On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 5:09:48 PM UTC-4, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > > > On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 9:09:38 PM UTC+1, François wrote: > > On 11/10/16 01:58, Victor Shoup wrote: > > > Another issue. I'm not sure if $(MAKE) is specific to gnu make or if > it is universal. > > > In general, I don't want to assume gnu. But I can certainly make this > the default, > > > and provide a config variable to override. > > > > I'll have another go at this when you use > > $(MAKE) inside a makefile you are making sure > > that the make command used is the same one that > > you called on the initial makefile. > > > > As other people mentioned it enable parallel make > > to proceed nicely, and in the case where there is > > several make command installed on the system > > you avoid funny things happening. I have AIX > > system which comes with its own posix make > > command. Something like ntl probably require > > gmake (GNU make), calling AIX make in the > > middle is not a good idea. > > > > > > Perhaps the most natural solution would be to change NTL build system so > that > > it uses the standard autotools chain (autoconf/automake etc), not only > libtool. > > Given that it uses very few external libraries, it ought to be an easy > task. > > > > Given that I am perhaps the only person in this thread who learned to > program using punch cards, > > I am a dinosaur from an earlier period, yet, I look into the future :-) > > > > Dima > > > > > > > > Francois > > > > -- > > 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- 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.
