On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Ralf Stephan <gtrw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Depends on the package, but if one package is a build dependency of
another package then yes, most likely it will require the headers.

> 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> 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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