[Debian-science-sagemath] [sage-devel] Upcoming Debian freeze

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 08/01/2019 13:02, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> On 2019-01-08 08:50, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> And the argument can be easily reverted: do not use autotools in the set up !
> 
> No. autoconf (that's the only part of autotools that I use) is perfectly suited to solve the problems that I need to solve in cysignals. It solves the problem of detecting various headers and functionsI wouldn't know how to do that otherwise.
> 
> The main problem seems to be that merely having a "./configure" script creates false expectations. I am actually wondering whether I should rename "./configure" to something else just to avoid that confusion.

I am agree here. `configure[.ac]' leads to some expectation from potential installer and from the debhelper scripts, as `setup.py' does.

So, my understanding now is that what you really need is the m4 part of the autotools suite.

Jerome

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> Jeroen.
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