Very good. Doesn't it only work if the user not only has the library but 
also the respective headers, i.e., the corresponding xyz-devel package 
installed?

On Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 4:54:12 PM UTC+1, Erik Bray wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > On Monday, March 5, 2018 at 9:48:25 AM UTC, Ralf Stephan wrote: 
> >> 
> >> I'm interested in a fix because it prevents clean patchbot results on 
> >> OpenSuSE 
> > 
> > 
> > Erik has an implementation of such feature generically, on some recent 
> open 
> > ticket. 
>
> I didn't actually have a ticket up for this work yet, but I do now: 
> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24919 
> It provides a simple (arguably...) mechanism for providing per-package 
> configure-time checks.  I haven't gone and added that for every 
> package yet though, and it wouldn't be worth trying until an 
> agreed-upon mechanism is fully implemented first. 
>
> But then we could, say, add a configure-time check for readline so 
> that Sage will stop building its own copy where it isn't necessary to. 
>
>
> >>> How to tell "configure" not to install the Sage-shipped version ? I 
> think 
> >>> I am able to look at the configuration of the Sage-shipped packages 
> for 
> >>> which this happens in order  to understand what is done and 
> clone/adapt the 
> >>> process. What are they ? 
> >>> 
> >>> What features are necessary in {libtinfo|libreadline|wwhatever} for 
> Sage 
> >>> to run correcly (i. e. what should "configure" test) ? 
> > 
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