On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 6:39:27 PM UTC+2, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > Bonus question for the build system experts : can an spkg-install script > recursively call $SAGE_ROOT/sage -i <some other package> and get the return > status back ? A simple solution would then be to test for the existence of > the relevant binaries/executables in the R spkg-install script, and > recursively install the (optional) relevant packages before proceeding to > install R. > > What do you think ? > > I would say the good solution would be to mimick what is done for GCC. Some calls to the autoconf macros here: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/master/configure.ac#L393
Also have a look at what is done for the integer multi precision library: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/master/configure.ac#L657 What is done for BLAS can also help. I don't have much time these days, but if you don't feel at ease enough with autotools I can give it a try. -- 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.
